{"id":3887,"date":"2007-11-22T01:52:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/22\/chris-wares-thanksgiving-new-yorker-covers\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T01:52:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T09:12:06","slug":"chris-wares-thanksgiving-new-yorker-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ware&#039;s Thanksgiving New Yorker Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I noticed Chris Ware had done a Thanksgiving-themed <em>New Yorker<\/em> cover but didn&#8217;t think much of it, other than &#8220;this seems disappointingly simple for a Chris Ware cover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it wasn&#8217;t until this week that I found out that Ware had in fact done a series of four alternate <em>New Yorker<\/em> covers and an online one-page comic strip; the five pieces are strongly interrelated, and the full meanings of the earlier covers in the series can&#8217;t be appreciated without reading the later covers and the one-page comic. The first of the series is a single-panel illustration; the second, two panels; the third (which is the one I saw last year) four panels; the fourth, 26; and the online comic page has, I dunno, a hell of a lot of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ware_thanksgiving.jpg' alt='ware_thanksgiving.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>There are some really ridiculously large copies of the Ware Thanksgiving on the New Yorker&#8217;s site, which is good because &#8220;ridicuously large&#8221; is probably the only way to read these. <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/newyorker\/061127on_ware_1.gif\">First <\/a>cover; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/newyorker\/061127on_ware_2.gif\">second <\/a>cover; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/newyorker\/061127on_ware_3.gif\">third <\/a>cover; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/newyorker\/061127on_ware_4.gif\">fourth <\/a>cover; and companion <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonbank.com\/newyorker\/061127on_ware_5.gif\">one-page comic<\/a>. And a brief interview with Ware about the covers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2006\/11\/27\/061127on_onlineonly01\">can be heard here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I noticed Chris Ware had done a Thanksgiving-themed New Yorker cover but didn&#8217;t think much of it, other than &#8220;this seems disappointingly simple for a Chris Ware cover.&#8221; Somehow it wasn&#8217;t until this week that I found out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}