Same subway

Over the years we've done a few subway-map-themed posts. Here's another by Michael Crawford from The New Yorker and an article about a proposal by Architect and mapmaker Jug Cerovic to standardize the world's subway maps:   

Bloody Balkins

The New Yorker magazine regular Michael Crawford is no stranger to using maps in his comics.  This is a depiction of a blood-soaked Balkins region during the bloodshed there in the 1990s.

State Chimeras

Here's a fun fantasy on state hybrids by Michael Crawford in The New Yorker

And in the Dakotas...

In the spirit of the recent (justified) excitement about the weather here's a meteorological item from a recent New Yorker Magazine cartoon by Michael Crawford:

Is this a depiction of the anchorman being mean to the hapless TV weatherman?

Hitting Saddam

Hitting Saddam Where It Hurts. ( Map of possible air-strike targets in Iraq, shows Stretch-limo bases; Restaurants That Don't Take Reservations; Hummel Factories; Lite FM Stations.)

Wanna guess when Michael Crawford had this published in The New Yorker? Lead up to 2003 Iraq invasion? Nope.  Persian Gulf war? Nope.  This was in February 1998, when Clinton was sending cruise missiles in to effectively punish Saddam for not cooperating with U.N. WMD inspectors.

New York art scene

Cartoon in a May 1989 New Yorker by Michael Crawford.  It looks like a commentary on the various art scenes in New York state.  I can't read all of them, but here's the ones I can read: Neo-surrealists, abstractionists, social realists, constructionalists, primitivists, post-structuralists, post-conceptualists, post-modernists,

Teen Weather

In case you can't read the caption on this one, it says "Teen Weather". I'm technically about 18 months away from experiencing a teenager full time in my house. Wish me luck! (Published in The New Yorker 10/2/1995 by Michael Crawford)