Spike vs. Lifetime
This illustration was for the NYTimes Arts & Leisure section for a comparison of the programming on Spike and Lifetime. It was a nice big top cover; prime newspaper-art real estate. The article was hilarious and I was feeling no pressure (ha!) to be as funny. This is actually an amalgamation of two ideas (the man with the bra brain was originally paired with a woman whose brain sported big glasses) and I was never 100% about how they would hang together as a set. The editors were instantly sold on bra brain but felt that the woman’s mind should be devoted to varied concerns. That made sense for sure but how to show that in an equally singular, but opposite way? For me, and in our limited timeframe, it couldn’t be done (not for a lack of trying), and we ended up using the woman from an alternate set.
So, after all was said and done, my happy couple that were supposed to span the width of the cover, ran at about 5” wide total. A little disappointing, but that’s how it goes with newspapers sometimes, things change so fast.