Berkeley-based artist Eric Drooker painted this lovely-but-ominous cover, which he submitted to The New Yorker about a year ago, but only this week did the magazine decide it was thematically appropriate for the time. Says Drooker on the New Yorker's blog, "Manhattan Island has become more and more an exclusive place for the super wealthy, or the super corporations—and a hostile place for people to live, not just for the working class, but even for the middle class. The city has become this monolithic cathedral to money.”
Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist who also designed the animation for the recent film, Howl, based on Allen Ginsburg’s poem. He's done illustrations for The New Yorker since 1994, and he's currently in Mexico.
