GUESS WHO’S WATCHING

WHILE EVERY DAY BROUGHT stunning
new developments during the Arab Spring in
2011, Barry Blitt submitted a sketch of a Middle
Eastern family looking quizzically at American
television’s coverage of Charlie Sheen’s shenanigans
(right). Glenn Beck, who used the guise of political
commentator to build a cult around himself, is a
more likely cover subject for us than, say, Lindsay
Lohan or Paris Hilton. Illustration student Korwin
Briggs proposed using Glenn Beck’s blackboard
demonstration style to diagram out all that is
wrong with The New Yorker (far right).

IN A PARODY OF a once well-known
Coppertone ad (above), Barry Blitt reveals
the cloth that was covering Glenn Beck’s
bottom: a Klan hood (left). I talked to
Zohar Lazar about showing terrorists in a
cave watching Glenn Beck on TV (oppo-
site): The idea was that they’d be rejoicing
about the destruction they had wrought
on America. But irony about the state of
mind of a cartoon character is a hard con-
cept to communicate visually: The reader
can’t help wondering, “What are all those
people smiling at?”

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