“It’s a celebration of love–it’s just that simple,” the artist and designer Frank Viva says of his cover for the June 27th issue. Viva originally conceived of a silhouetted couple a few years ago as a celebration of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. (See the first iteration of the image below.) He returned to the thought in the wake of the massacre in Orlando.
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
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What Cartoonists Saw in Isolation: A Portrait of the Pandemic
In the spring of 2020, artists captured silliness, sexiness, despondence, and hope. What does quarantine look like when viewed from the other side?
By Gabe Fowler