First ever New Yorker cover drawn entirely on an iPhone
This Gizmodo writer obviously doesn’t know his New Yorker history, otherwise he’d know that the magazine instituted a mandatory retirement age for editors decades ago (former editor William Shawn was the only one excluded from this rule):
Artist Jorge Colombo took about an hour to fingerpaint an intricate Times Square scene on his iPhone using Brushes, a $4.99 iPhone drawing app. Now, it’s the June 1st cover for The New Yorker.
I’m guessing the editors of the magazine saw some kind of weighty symbolism in such a stunt, but landing a New Yorker cover is the kind of honor that would define an entire career for many illustrators. That’s not to say this kind of thing isn’t impressive—it really, really is—but I can’t help imagining some dusty, 93-year-old editor at the top floor of the Conde Nast building seeing his first iPhone in the hands of an intern, losing his monocle over this amazing new tech-nol-o-gee, and impulsively ordering something, anything to do with this MAGICKAL DEE-VICE to be put on the cover, now.
[...] as with the first New Yorker cover ever drawn on an iPhone, it really boils down to a gimmick that is (arguably) inconsequential, but it’s still [...]