Best Magazine Cover

'New Yorker' Wins Best Magazine Cover of the Year

September Issue Pictured Oval Office Under Water

By Nat Ives

Published: October 24, 2006

PHOENIX (AdAge.com) -- The best magazine cover of the last year arrived on the front of The New Yorker's Sept. 19, 2005, issue, on which cartoonist Barry Blitt pictured the Bush Administration,

The New Yorker's Sept. 19, 2005, cover depicting the Oval office innundated by Katrina-like flood waters was named Magazine Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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from the president to Condoleezza Rice to Dick Cheney to Karl Rove, flooded to the shoulders with water and trouble after the government outraged millions with an awful response to Hurricane Katrina.

That assessment is according to the American Society of Magazine Editors, which wrapped up the American Magazine Conference today with its first picks for a to-be-annual magazine cover competition.

Top prize
The New Yorker won the top prize over two other nominees, Wenner Media's 1,000th issue of Rolling Stone, an elaborate 3-D affair, and The Economist's July issue picturing North Korea's Kim Jong-il riding a rocket plume skyward. That cover, however, did win for best cover line, "Rocket Man."

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Star, Nov. 29, 2004
"260 lb Kirstie: TOO FAT FOR SEX!"
A deranged Kirstie Alley flips the paparazzi a double birdie. But wait, there's more! Kirstie's flanked by a "DUMPED!" Lindsay Lohan, Star "BRIDEZILLA!" Jones, and eight-weeks-preggers Britney. You know, on second thought, maybe this belongs on the best-ever list. I'm petitioning ASME for a recount.
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