Newmanology has been publishing a series of magazine covers collections to celebrate Black History Month. On this website and on the Newmanology Tumblr page, we’ve been highlighting African American magazines and publications from the past 100 years (and one from South Africa!). Here are some of the best covers from those collections, plus links to […]
Copies of My Favo(u)rite Magazine have been traveling around the world and settling in the studios and offices of artists and illustrators! Here’s a collection of photographs of My Favo(u)rite Magazine taken in Toronto, Barcelona, Brooklyn, and more, on illustrators’ desks and drawing tables. My Favo(u)rite Magazine is the benefit project created by Jeremy Leslie […]
My latest cover review for the Folio: online Face Up column is out now. It’s a look at the new cover of Mad magazine, a parody of The Lego Movie by illustrator Mark Frederickson and art director Sam Viviano. I like the cover a lot, but ask the question, “If a parent likes a Mad […]
Duke was the first black men’s pinup magazine, launched in 1957. It was based on the editorial format pioneered by Playboy, and like that magazine was also published in Chicago. It featured fiction, interviews, fashion, racy cartoons, and of course, a pin-up centerfold. Notable writers published in Duke included Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, and George […]
The Crisis was founded in 1910 by W.E.B. DuBois as the official publication of the NAACP. Within nine years it reached a circulation of 100,000. It was an important venue in its early days for African American authors, including Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Jessie Fauset. It also included powerful graphic covers by […]
Voice Media Group design director Tom Carlson has been working overtime the past few months. In addition to his duties supervising the design of the Village Voice Media altweekly papers, he’s continued as art director of Riverfront Times in St. Louis, and has been art directing the covers of New York City’s The Village Voice. […]
The Black Panther was a weekly newspaper published by the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Art directed by Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, The Black Panther covers were a combination of Douglas’s own powerful illustration, collage, high-contrast photographs, and poster-like graphics. Bold and provocative, each cover was an incendiary call to action […]
Jet magazine was a digest-sized weekly published by Johnson Publishing. Herbert Temple was Jet‘s longtime art director. Throughout the 1960s Jet continued its use of black and white cover photos and a single bright color on the cover, combined with Temple’s use of bold graphic background shapes. Although Jet always had a healthy dose of […]
I’ve been pessimistic lately about the state of iPad magazine apps. There are certainly some ably-designed apps based on existing magazines, but increasingly they feel like static replicas that are being churned out from an assembly line. A lot of this is due to various publishing strategies, rules, and budgets (or the lack of budgets). […]
Longtime political activist, writer, speaker, teacher, and cultural icon Angela Davis celebrated her 70th birthday on January 26. Angela’s bold, outspoken politics combined with her striking image (and that classic afro!) inspired many memorable posters, graphics, and magazine covers. Here are 10 of our favorites. For more information on the visual image of Angela Davis, […]
