Black and white covers of The New Yorker

This week's cover of The New Yorker by illustrator Bruce Eric Kaplan reminded me of how much I love straight-up black and white magazine covers. And it got us wondering how many other covers of The New Yorker were run totally in black and white (and grey....no color). Kaplan himself has done four others in all black and white, and there are a bunch of others as well, running all the way back to 1925.

This story was co-produced by Linda Rubes.





November 7, 2005. Illustration by Saul Steinberg.




November 12, 2001. Illustration by Edward Koren.


July 27, 1940. Illustration by Christina Malman.


July 11, 1925. Illustration by Bertrand Zadig.



September 24, 2001. Illustration by Art Spiegelman. This is the famous post-9/11 New Yorker cover that was printed in two shades of black, with the Twin Towers appearing in a slightly darker shade.

There's a collection of 14 black and white covers of The New Yorker here.