Behind the Cover: The Anniversary Issue

This week’s issue of The New Yorker features a special four-part cover titled “Evolution” and illustrated by Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, and Ivan Brunetti. In this video, the four artists and Françoise Mouly, The New Yorkers art editor, discuss the concept behind the covers. Ware also wrote about the challenge of drawing Rea Irvin, the magazine’s original art director.