Posts Tagged ‘New York Magazine’

The Adventures of Superagent

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

New York Magazine is no stranger to comics, reporting comics news with the same respect and level of snark they report everything else with. They’ve even been known to dabble in the medium themselves, using comics to put a new twist on news that could otherwise be dry or uninteresting or just more of the same.

As part of their “Who Runs New York?” feature, they spotlighted literary superagent Andrew Wylie, who recently caused a stir when he created Odyssey Editions, selling electronic editions of some of his clients’ titles exclusively through Amazon. Traditional print publishers, particularly Random House, took issue with this, asserting that they own the rights to publish these books electronically.

What happened next? Well, Boris Kachka and Dan Goldman sum it up quite nicely in the “The Life of Wylie,” published in the October 4 issue of New York Magazine.

A Fall Romance

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Every season has its own style and fashion, and you can always count on New York Magazine to tell you what’s hip and hot in the “Capital of the World” in quarterly issues that lay out the latest and greatest in apparel and accessories. Perhaps their usual photos of models all dressed up or accessories laid out on neutral backgrounds grew tiresome, because for the Fall ’08 issue they decided to try something a bit different, hiring Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca to create a little comic that showed off the season’s styles.

The story is a short romance tale that gets a little strange; it’s entirely possible to read the entire thing without even realizing its true purpose. But that purpose is there nonetheless, with each featured item and its price listed below each page of the comic, labeled according to the panel they appear in.

The purpose of the comic calls to mind the Perry Ellis campaign from a few years back, but as the title indicates, the twist is something else entirely.