9. Claudia Cardinale – December 1966
This is what George Lois calls his second “cheesecake cover”
10. A Truman Capote cover – December 1967
A reference to Truman Capote’s infamous 1966 masked ball when he invited 540 of his closest friends!
11. The Face of a Hero – September 1965
Lois created a composite image of the leading four heroes to American college students at the time: Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, and Fidel Castro. Their faces were all joined together by the crosshairs of a rifle sight.
12. Tamest Event on Kids TV That Day: Ruby Kills Oswald – May 1967
For Lois, the cover represented “the moment [Nov. 24, 1963] when an all-American kid started to grow up with live violence in his carpeted den, complete with an all-American hamburger and Coke.”
13. Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man? – March 1965
The slowly growing feminist movement served as an inspiration for the cover. Lois said he wondered, “Was there a point where sexual equality would end and confusion begin?” Many people mistake the actress on this cover with Marilyn Monroe; she’s actually Italian actress Virna Lisi. Marilyn had died almost three years before this picture was taken.
14. Bizarre Harper’s Cover – October 1963
According to Lois, the cover was a swipe at magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His focus was on showing real versus imagined glamour
15. A Nation’s Tears – June 1964
Lois’s trompe l’oeil cover of Kennedy in tears was published seven months after the assassination. According to Lois, “…showed the opposite symbolism-of Kennedy himself, crying for his lost destiny.”
Credits: vintag.es
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