Italy kicks butt (guest post)

Hello! Guest contributor Amanda Murphyao here, interrupting your regularly scheduled Monday morning world map cartoons to bring you some more images of Italy as (of course) a boot (as well as a sock):

Clifford K. Berryman, 4-10-1922

James Berryman, 7-26-1943

James Berryman, 7-30-1953

Jan Sluijters, De Nieuwe Amsterdammer # 149, Amsterdam, 3 November 1917

Clifford Berryman, 1915

John Collins, "Christmas Sock," The Gazette (Montreal), 26 December 1940

(Forgot to grab the full size image of this one while I was at the Library of Congress, but may be useful for other researchers to have this citation.)

The Economist, 8 January 2011, page 51

The Economist

The Economist magazine is a UK-based world news magazine.  So finding a map on an Economist magazine cover is not at all uncommon, especially with over 50 issues offered every year.  Below is a sampling from so far this year alone.  I will say this, though: If you do read any other news magazine, especially any US-based "news" magazines, do yourself a favor and stop wasting your time and insulting your brain cells.  A typical week's issue of The Economist is more informative than a year's worth of every other US-based "news" magazine combined:

Steinberg China

Of course The New Yorker isn't the only one to use parody the classic 1976 Saul Steinberg drawing. Here's a version for the March 21st-27th issue of The Economist. This time from the Chinese perspective (click it to see a larger, more detailed view). This one was done by Jon Berkeley.