New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant To See ⇥

Next week marks the publication of Françoise Mouly’s “Blown Covers,” a book whose subtitle says it all: “New Yorker covers you were never meant to see.” Mouly, who is the art editor at the magazine, describes how iconic New Yorker covers came to be, and also, how some covers never came to be.

These covers are razor sharp. It’s a pity they were a little too risqué to be completed—I’d love to have posters of a few of these.