According to the Times, the winter of 2014 has seen “the fourth-warmest January on record,” but that’s only “for the earth as a whole.” What we New Yorkers have experienced recently is life in “one of the coldest areas on the planet, compared with seasonal norms.” Many may grumble, but snowstorms can delight children, and artists, and inspire artists with children. “I have been thinking: What if ordinary citizens were put on duty and ordered to harness their baby strollers to help plow New York City’s sidewalks?” Otto Steininger, who drew this week’s cover, says. “I practically enacted my own illustration when taking my daughter to preschool this winter.”
See below for a moving-image version of Otto Steininger’s cover, “Snowplows.”
