"Anyone can send for The New Yorker," asserts the 1986 ad in the magazine. Maybe so, but I doubt anyone could convince me to cut a subscription form out of my cherished copy of The New Yorker. Anyone, that is, with the possible exception of cartoonist Edward Koren, whose illustration of a man wielding a giant pair of scissors seems tailor-made for the purpose of having me mutilate my magazine.
Actually, it is not. The drawing is indeed tailor-made, but for a cartoon about a tailor. It appeared in The New Yorker in 1980 and was later repurposed for the subscription ad. You'd hardly know.
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| Spot illustration by A. Whiting and subscription ad by Edward Koren |
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| Ad by Cusinart and cartoon by Edward Koren |
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| A. Whiting spot |
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