New York Times Book Review Covers

Recently, cleaning out my storage, I came across these copies of the New York Times Book Reviews from 1987 to 2004 with my cover illustrations on them.

On these covers, you can see two different technological advances.

First was the New York Times Book Review, which transitioned from crude black-and-white print to color print. I actually illustrated the last black-and-white cover, which was published May 30, 1993. The other technological advancement was my own transition from using black-and-white scratchboard, first to Photoshop, and then to 3D illustration programs.

Here, you can see my cover illustrations in chronological order — one or two are missing.

I am immensely grateful to Steven Heller, the Art Director of the New York Times Book Review, who art directed all of these issues. He was also the first person in the U.S. to give me an assignment. In 1986, I went straight from the “boat” to the offices of the New York Times, and I knocked on his door.  Actually, now that I think about it, at that time, his office didn’t have a door.