Showing posts with label Spoiler alert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spoiler alert. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Cape Cod 2019: Peter de Sève's Summer Getaway

"Summer Getaway" is the title of Peter de Sève's New Yorker cover of July 28, 2008. Titles add little if anything to the magazine's covers, but at least this one has a clever double meaning. 
Peter de Sève
"Summer Getaway"
The New Yorker, July 28, 2008


No surprise here:  "Summer Getaway" is also the title of the New York Puzzle Company's 500 piece jigsaw puzzle of the New Yorker cover. 
Peter de Sève
"Summer Getaway"
The New Yorker, July 28, 2008
New York Puzzle Company



It's available for purchase on Amazon. It was also available as entertainment last week in our rental home on Cape Cod, where we traveled for what was a little too early to call a summer getaway.
Peter de Sève
"Summer Getaway"
The New Yorker, July 28, 2008
New York Puzzle Company



This puzzle as a work in progress may be seen here. Spoiler alert:  the full solution is about to be revealed below.


The puzzle solved:



Note:  Credit for the completion of this puzzle goes to my family and especially to my wife. I had nothing whatever to do with the days-long effort except for the photography.



Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Shannon Wheeler Dreams Up a Cartoon

Yesterday, The New Yorker's cartoon editor Bob Mankoff posted an article about the role of dreams in the creation of cartoons. Cartoonist Shannon Wheeler has discussed his own creative process in coming up with the excellent "Spoiler alert" cartoon. When I met him at MoCCA Fest 2012, he gave me permission to publish his preliminary sketch here along with his description of how he uses his own dreams.

On February 20, Mr. Wheeler wrote:
This is the rough for this week's NY'er cartoon. I write a lot of cartoons as I'm on the edge of sleep. I wake up enough to draw it super rough. To submit it to the NY'er I do a much more rendered drawing. I like the directness, simplicity, and energy of the original sketch - often I like it more than the final drawing.

Shannon Wheeler, "Spoiler alert" preliminary sketch  for
The New Yorker, February 27, 2012, Page 86

Shannon Wheeler, "Spoiler alert."
The New Yorker, February 27, 2012, Page 86

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