The New Yorker's Animated Cover
November 30, 2015 11:18 AM Subscribe
It's probably not a very interesting observation anymore, but Chris Ware is an authentic genius.
posted by The Bellman at 11:34 AM on November 30, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by The Bellman at 11:34 AM on November 30, 2015 [5 favorites]
(This video is best enjoyed in full-screen mode.)
You are not the boss of me
posted by thelonius at 11:37 AM on November 30, 2015 [9 favorites]
You are not the boss of me
posted by thelonius at 11:37 AM on November 30, 2015 [9 favorites]
The link in TAL's blog works for non-subscribers who passed their article limit: www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2015/11/our-new-yorker-cover
posted by TheGoodBlood at 11:52 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by TheGoodBlood at 11:52 AM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Wow! That was just so, so, nice. Really wonderful piece of modern Americana. I hope the New Yorker decides to do more stuff like this...hell I might even subscribe now.
posted by Doleful Creature at 11:57 AM on November 30, 2015
posted by Doleful Creature at 11:57 AM on November 30, 2015
I sincerely hope the daughter knew beforehand that her mom was going to tell this very specific story (down to a Hillary Clinton costume!) and have it broadcast on national radio.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 12:36 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by jeff-o-matic at 12:36 PM on November 30, 2015
Very similar things were done for TAL's Showtime run (although not involving the New Yorker.) I wish they had kept that going. (Disclosure: I know the people who made it, I'm working there now)
posted by fungible at 12:38 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by fungible at 12:38 PM on November 30, 2015
I sincerely hope the daughter knew beforehand that her mom was going to tell this very specific story (down to a Hillary Clinton costume!) and have it broadcast on national radio.
Do you make a similar comment for almost every single American Life story, which, with the exception of occasional works of fiction, are generally autobiographical?
posted by maxsparber at 12:49 PM on November 30, 2015
Do you make a similar comment for almost every single American Life story, which, with the exception of occasional works of fiction, are generally autobiographical?
posted by maxsparber at 12:49 PM on November 30, 2015
I actually feel like it is time for me to subscribe to the New Yorker. I've been seeing tons of good stuff there recently.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 1:35 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 1:35 PM on November 30, 2015
I love that the "therapy" flash-forward was in the form of a New Yorker cartoon.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:47 PM on November 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:47 PM on November 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
jeff-o-matic, Rosin shared that story on the Slate XX podcast right around Hallowe'en so it was already out there.
posted by hydrobatidae at 1:53 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by hydrobatidae at 1:53 PM on November 30, 2015
Also you realize they interviewed the daughter?
posted by hydrobatidae at 1:56 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by hydrobatidae at 1:56 PM on November 30, 2015
Could this New Yorker cover be any more Chicagoey?
(The story actually reminds me a lot of the Molly Ringwald TAL from a while back, so, yeah, it probably could be.)
posted by Sys Rq at 2:53 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
(The story actually reminds me a lot of the Molly Ringwald TAL from a while back, so, yeah, it probably could be.)
posted by Sys Rq at 2:53 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Could this New Yorker cover be any more Chicagoey?
I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey, especially the very last scene of them sitting by the waterfront, but that bridge in the background doesn't look like any bridge in New York that I know of and the subject of the piece lives in Washington, DC.
posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 3:05 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey, especially the very last scene of them sitting by the waterfront, but that bridge in the background doesn't look like any bridge in New York that I know of and the subject of the piece lives in Washington, DC.
posted by ultraviolet catastrophe at 3:05 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
(This video is best enjoyed in full-screen mode.)
Good job designing the video for the place it will be presented.
posted by OwlBoy at 3:47 PM on November 30, 2015
Good job designing the video for the place it will be presented.
posted by OwlBoy at 3:47 PM on November 30, 2015
>>> Could this New Yorker cover be any more Chicagoey?
>> I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey...
Having lived a for long time in both places I understood both of these comments. This type of story is something both cities do very well.
posted by cleroy at 3:59 PM on November 30, 2015
>> I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey...
Having lived a for long time in both places I understood both of these comments. This type of story is something both cities do very well.
posted by cleroy at 3:59 PM on November 30, 2015
Subscribing to The New Yorker is a fool's game. I've done it two or three times over the years and I never learn. It comes every WEEK for God's sake. It isn't like Time that you can read in a sitting in the bathroom. Who can keep up?
posted by hwestiii at 4:58 PM on November 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by hwestiii at 4:58 PM on November 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
NOTE TO SELF: Fizz, you never finished fully exploring all of the stories and comics contained in Building Stories. It's sitting on your bookshelf right on the top. Just grab some floor space and have at it. It's ok, I know you got sidetracked reading Vol. 1 of Saga, but this comic has so much awesomeness waiting for you, it's why you bought it in the first place, go...right now.
posted by Fizz at 5:56 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Fizz at 5:56 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
>>> Could this New Yorker cover be any more Chicagoey?
>> I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey...
Having lived a for long time in both places I understood both of these comments. This type of story is something both cities do very well.
Ira Glass and Chris Ware are both from Chicago.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:10 PM on November 30, 2015
>> I'm confused because to me it looks quintessentially New Yorkey...
Having lived a for long time in both places I understood both of these comments. This type of story is something both cities do very well.
Ira Glass and Chris Ware are both from Chicago.
posted by shakespeherian at 6:10 PM on November 30, 2015
This was great. My New Yorker and TAL addictions have both been victims to my fall from middlebrow to belowbrow (underbite?) This made me want to revisit both.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 7:30 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by ActingTheGoat at 7:30 PM on November 30, 2015
This is really cool, thank you for posting it. I love Chris Ware and this is an interesting direction for him, both the illustrating other people's stories and the animation.
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:50 PM on November 30, 2015
posted by LobsterMitten at 7:50 PM on November 30, 2015
Fizz, you never finished fully exploring all of the stories and comics contained in Building Stories.
This was the first thing that went through my mind on opening the digital edition late last night on my iPad. Pure guilt at not sufficiently engaging with Building Stories, at letting Chris down.
posted by mwhybark at 9:07 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
This was the first thing that went through my mind on opening the digital edition late last night on my iPad. Pure guilt at not sufficiently engaging with Building Stories, at letting Chris down.
posted by mwhybark at 9:07 PM on November 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
I love that a discussion about girls being more attractive with makeup is kicked off by the daughter wanting to look like Hilary Clinton. How New Yorker of them.
posted by Phreesh at 11:22 AM on December 1, 2015
posted by Phreesh at 11:22 AM on December 1, 2015
Chris Ware lives in Chicago, but his is from Omaha.
(He said, writing from the historical society in Omaha.)
posted by maxsparber at 12:37 PM on December 1, 2015
(He said, writing from the historical society in Omaha.)
posted by maxsparber at 12:37 PM on December 1, 2015
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