In 1975 Ronald Searle adapted his New Yorker cover of February 17, 1973 into a lithograph entitled They're All Against Me. Searle had no choice but to execute the magazine cover as a vertical composition, but the lithograph allowed him to rethink the placement of the fish-loving cat among the many desserts. The result is a horizontal composition that conveys the same idea as the bold cover in a very different way. Even the expressions on the faces of the cats are markedly different, a sly smile versus a disappointed frown. It works both ways. For his collection More Cats (1975), which has its pages in what we now call the landscape orientation, Searle chose to reproduce the lithograph; in fact, it may have been created in part for this purpose.
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| Ronald Searle The New Yorker, February 17, 1973 |
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| Ronald Searle They're All Against Me Hors commerce aside from the edition of 99, 1975 |
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