The New Yorker Years, part 1

all images, Kevin Sprouls In the years from 1989 to 1991, I enjoyed a regular (if rigorous) retainership from the New Yorker magazine. It didn't pay a princely sum, but I was glad to have the coveted, prestigious exposure in this high profile weekly. Rigorous, in that I would receive a request for an illustration on a Tuesday afternoon, and be expected to ship art overnight on Thursday. Meaning, I had to drop everything else I was working on and devote myself entirely to the magazine for a day or two. I still enjoy magazine work today, and sometimes accept less than optimum terms for the pleasure of being published. Here, then, are a collection of my images that were printed in the New Yorker, for the "Goings On About Town", or GOAT pages. Mainly, these were to publicize dramatic or cinematic events, concerts, etc.For an Australian film, as I recall...

Publicizing the film, "Gremlins"from a 1940's flick... note the garter. Most de rigeur!Fabulous African musician, Youssou N'Dour.Bing Crosby and Mary Martin.This was the "nail in the coffin" for me with the new Yorker. I thought, given the circumstances, this wasn't such a bad image, but one of the A/D's didn't like MM's visage in the 1st draft. What you see here is the original art, with a paper patch carrying a substitution of the starlet's face. Sometimes relationships break off without apparent reason or warning!