The New Republic Covers-The Democrats


June 3, 2002	July 1, 2002	Dec. 30, 2002	Feb. 17, 2003	June 19, 2003


July 28, 2003	Nov. 17, 2003	Dec. 29, 2003	Jan. 19, 2004	Feb. 2, 2004


Feb. 9, 2004	Feb. 23, 2004	July 19, 2004	Aug. 2, 2004	Aug. 9, 2004


Oct. 18, 2004	Nov. 1, 2004	Nov. 15, 2004	Nov. 22, 2004

6/3	2002	Kerry	Can John Kerry Make People Like Him?	Photo	Jim Bourg-NewsPixUSA
7/1	2002	Dean	Invisible Man	Illustration	Craig Frazier
12/30	2002	Hart	Comeback Kids	Illustration	Ryan Sanchez
2/17	2003	Sharpton	How the Democrats Created Al Sharpton	Illustration	Edel Rodriguez
5/19	2003	Dean, Edw., Geph.., Kerry, Lieb., Sharp.	Southern Exposure	Illustration	Zach Trenholm
7/28	2003	Dean	Must He Be Stopped?	Photo	Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/NewsCom
11/17	2003	Trippi	The Man Who Reinvented Campaigning	Photo	John Pettitt/ DeanForAmerica.com
12/29	2003	Dean	Howard Dean's Religion Problem	Illustration	Edel Rodriguez
1/19	2004	Lieberman	Joe Lieberman: The Democrats' Best Choice	Photo Illustration	By Joe Heroun; Image by Landov
2/2	2004	Kerry	Bring it On?	Photo	AP/Lawrence Jackson
2/9	2004	Kerry	Full Circle	Photo	Bob Hammerstrom/AP/ The Nashua Telegraph
2/23	2004	Ship	Oops! Howard Dean's Washington…	Illustration	Christoph Hitz
7/19	2004	Kerry/Edwards	That's the Ticket	Photo	Larry Downing/Reuters/ Landov
8/2	2004	Bob Shrum	The Boss	Illustration	Michael Witte
8/9	2004	Kerry/Edwards	Boston Globe	Illustration	Phil Foster
10/18	2004	Kerry	Fictional Character	Photo	Shawn Thew/EPA/Landov
11/1	2004	Kerry	John Kerry for President	Illustration	Nancy Stahl
11/15	2004	crying Kerry supporter	Despair and Strategy	Photo	NewsCom/ZUMA Press/Don Murray
11/22	2004	Democrats	(talk balloons)	Illustration	Mark Alan Stamaty
also
3/26	2001	Daschle	The Only Person Who Can Stop Bush	Illustration	Thomas Fuchs
4/9	2001	ClintonHR	The Banality of Senator Clinton	Photo	Ricardo Watson/UPI

TNR Art Director Joe Heroun commented on some of these covers:

-"As much as I enjoy illustration, some of the most effective covers have used newswire photography. Like finding a diamond in the rough, it can require tediously wading through dozens and dozens of images until one speaks to you. Other times you find them quickly. But it's gratifying to discover unflattering outtakes that pair with a headline to make a convincing case for or against your subject... On the June 3, 2002 cover, John Kerry's likeability problem, displayed an uncharacteristic 'awshucks' cocked head and goofy smile, which underscored his determined, albeit unconvincing drive to be perceived as a nice guy.

-June 19, 2003: "The artist for this week's cover is Zach Trenholm from San Francisco. He gained notoriety doing caricatures for the defunct website Suck.com and I've worked with him a number of times previously. Over the past couple of years he's done a number of satirical portraits for the Books & Arts section of TNR. The cover was intended to suggest that the Dems first big gathering of '04 candidates was a lightweight affiar and that they were pandering to their Southern hosts, hence the oldboy Seersucker suits and mint juleps. Zach's style was perfect to set the sarcastic tone. Nine figures were too much to cram onto the cover so we decided to edit out those candidates considered less formidable and which didn't play prominently inside. We included Sharpton for mainly comic value. The piece ran as submitted on the first draft."

-"...the need to over-explain...can result in less than stellar results. Case in point: the August 9, 2004 cover, with Kerry and Edwards looking out over the conventioneers toward the larger world. It was not a provocative or engaging solution. It might have clarity going for it if one stays with it long enough to get it. But a little mystery is often better, and I like to let the words carry the more of the freight in many instances."

-"I strive for simplicity and, with photography in particular, an emotional connection, best evidenced with the November 15, 2004 cover of the tearful and dejected Kerry supporter. Totally free of artifice or cleverness, few things could have better expressed the mood of 49% percent of the voting electorate at that moment in time."