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COVER STORY: ALL TOGETHER NOW
POSTED BY CHRIS WARE
This is the first cover of 2014. I drew the first of 2013 after chaperoning my daughters school class to a production of The Nutcracker and hearing about the Newtown shooting shortly after the school bus pulled into the parking lot. Like the other parents, I followed the story, listening to the radio and, hands shaking, scrolling through the news reports on my iPhone, all the while making sure my daughter heard about none of it. Now, a year out, its absolutely shameful that the certainty with which we all believed national gun-control legislation would be enacted has been met with nothing. Just this morning, I heard one of the Newtown families interviewed on the radiotheyd lost their only daughter that dayand they spoke of the foundation theyd established in her name, invoking the chilling phrase so that no other parent would have to go through what they had. And all they had left of her were their memories, and their pictures.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/12/cover-story-all-together-now.html
Quantess
(27,630 posts)What does this cover have to do with the Newtown school shooting?
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)ourselves and our own children and their achievements and stardom, instead of the big picture of the children's success together as a whole...I don't know how it directly relates, either. Edit to add: it also looks like a statement about being in the moment vs. looking at it through a gadget. Either way, I don't get it.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)The school play to a disinterested party is a cut assemblage of little ones having the opportunity to perform on stage for family and friends. Quite naturally, each parent is most focused on their own child--wanting to document this moment for the future as "a good memory".
This cover is more poignant when artist reveals this was drawn right after Newtown shooting.
Now those photos and videos and memories are all this parents have left of the precious innocence that was gunned down in that place where little ones are sent to grow and learn and be safe.
Hope that helps.
Ms. Toad
(33,999 posts)in the wake of the Newtown school shooting. The cover pictured is the first cover for 2014.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Creation of 2014 cover.
Ms. Toad
(33,999 posts)about the connection the Newtown shooting (discussed in the context of the 2013 cover) had to do with the image (of the 2014 cover). I was just responding to that piece of it.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)The person who drew this wrote why exactly they drew it.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Into any image we see.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)which is why I asked. Thanks.
JI7
(89,241 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Focused on their own children. Seems metaphorical. Like the message is being lost.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I think the cartoon is far simpler than many are seeming to interpret.
1000words
(7,051 posts)We are not a well society.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I heard one of the Newtown families interviewed on the radiotheyd lost their only daughter that dayand they spoke of the foundation theyd established in her name, invoking the chilling phrase so that no other parent would have to go through what they had. And all they had left of her were their memories, and their pictures.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)The New Yorker does it. Again. As always.
JI7
(89,241 posts)and nothing happened.