THE LAST OF THE 70s TIME COVERS

August 23, 1976
Jack Davis

September 6, 1976
Charles Saxon

November 8, 1976
the next three are Jack Davis

December 20, 1976

January 10, 1977

Quick poll: How many (outside the U.K.) heard of News of the World before two weeks ago?
January 17, 1977
Mort Drucker

June 6, 1977
David Levine

August 8, 1977
Edward Sorel

April 10, 1978
Charles Saxon

April 17, 1978
Saul Steinberg

December 17,1979
Gary Panter

December 24, 1979
Edward Sorel

February 18, 1980
Seymour Chwast

April 28, 1980
Edward Sorel

August 14, 1980
David Levine

December 1, 1980
Edward Sorel

TIME, 1 of 5

I was at a newsstand recently, and not a single general interest magazine except The New Yorker had an illustration on the cover. I can understand them cutting down on size to save money, but, must they all have photographs? Many teachers I had in art school blamed the dearth of illustration on Spy with its graphics, but they still had a number of illustrations. Even newspapers like The Village Voice have stopped paying some of their contributors.

At one time Time would frequently have a drawing instead of a photograph.

These are scans rather than magazines I own. This is why I couldn't get them bigger and the borders are blurry. I wish I could.

Okay this first one doesn't count, since it's for a story specifically about comics.

April 9, 1965

May 14, 1965
by Saul Steinberg

April 4, 1967
by Paul Conrad

September 22,1967
by Gerald Scarfe

November 3,1967
these next three are by David Levine

January 5,1968

March 8, 1968

again, these next two are Gerald Scarfe.

June 26, 1968

October 11, 1968

Since these are all in chronological order, On Monday I'll be getting to Jack Davis, who did the majority of them.

from the December 1959 issue of ESQUIRE

Early work of David Levine. He agrees with me when he laments there are no tabloid-sized magazines anymore. As he told Comics Journal, “All those magazines were much nicer in their full scale from the point of view of the look of the art...There was a time when I could do something on a travel trip for Holiday magazine and have full scale of reproduction. It was a nice feeling to be able to get that.”

A Christmas Carol

Another blog already had this yesterday when I already had it planned so if you've already seen it here it is again. Here are also the rest of the cartoons from the December, 1961 issue of ESQUIRE. I had to scan these twice to get the whole page. Imagine that at one time you could get a 350-page tabloid-sized magazine inside a sleeve for only a dollar, and the editorial content wasn't plugging something. I know it was almost 50 years ago but still...

In abscence of a hero for the seventies

from ESQUIRE, March 1972






from ESQUIRE, June 1972