In 1976 Ronald Searle managed to get a strong environmental image onto the cover of the New Yorker, one of the earliest if not the very first to appear there. Despite its humor, it raises some serious questions without being too preachy. The cover was followed two years later by a lithograph in which the right-facing bird was became a left-facing one. The magazine cover illustration has been reproduced in Searle's collections with the title The Long March, one that he had already used on an earlier lithograph of cats parading under a rainbow. The lithograph that corresponds to this cover was therefore given a different title, The Flight.
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| Ronald Searle The New Yorker, October 4.1976 |
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| Ronald Searle The Flight Edition of 99, 1978 |
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