NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A March cover of New York magazine locating Eliot Spitzer's brain below his waist has nabbed nominations in three different categories, including Cover of the Year, in the third annual best-covers contest organized by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
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ASME Unveils Best-Covers Nominees for 2008
This New York magazine cover was nominated in three different categories, including Cover of the Year, in ASME's best-covers contest.
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This New York magazine cover was nominated in three different categories, including Cover of the Year, in ASME's best-covers contest.
Two other New York covers plus the debut front of its spinoff, Look, combined with the Spitzer image, by Barbara Kruger, to make New York a six-time finalist and the leader among the nominees.
The finalists, from which winners will be named at the American Magazine Conference in two weeks, include The New Yorker, with four shots at a prize. Its cover sketch introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Sen. Larry Craig (he of the wide stance) made our own list of favorites for 2007. Its wildly controversial cover mocking misperceptions and slurs about Barack and Michelle Obama did not make the cut. The New Yorker took the top prize in last year's contest.
Covers showing one or both of the presidential candidates scored four nominations.
Wired magazine, which won last year's celebrity-cover nod, appears as a 2008 finalist three times. Other titles with multiple nominations include The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Texas Monthly, Time and Vanity Fair.
View the cover gallery here.
