Mark Pasetsky's Cover Awards

This issue of The Week is the latest in the string of Barack Obama Magazine covers to hit the newsstand.

And, that’s not surprising. Especially after seeing the 250,000 (the number keeps going up!) person crowd in Berlin yesterday or learning that bombshell Pam Anderson threw her boobs support behind Barack Obama.

Last week’s controversial cover of the New Yorker was a virtual sell-out on newsstands with early estimates at 75,000 up from the weekly average of 43,000, reports the NY Post. (Most copies are sold via subscription.)

For Us Weekly, the cover featuring Obama and his wife Michelle sold between 900,000 and 1 million, above the magazine’s 800,000 weekly newsstand average.

Obama is also on the cover of the recent double issue of Rolling Stone, which could sell as many as 250,000, also above the magazine’s newsstand average for double issues.

Said a spokeswoman for Time, “Of our five covers featuring Obama and/or Hillary Clinton. . . this year, they either sold significantly above average or above average. On the other hand, the John McCain cover this year sold just below average, reports the NY Post.

Time: Barack Obama as a child with his mom

Time: Barack Obama: And the Winner is…

Time: Hillary Clinton the Fighter

Time: Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton Cover

Time: Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton Cover

(Source: NY Post)

Posted by: Mark Pasetsky

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Both presidential campaigns have similar views on the New Yorker cover:

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said “the New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create, but most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

What did John McCain say?

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The following post is from CoverAwards’ new intern Michael Canterino. Welcome aboard!

While I don’t approve of this sort of cover by any means, I cannot say that I am shocked to actually see it. In my opinion, the racial implications that are put forth in this cover relate more to race rather than terrorism.

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AND ANSWER THAT 3AM CALL?

What started as a simple campaign ad has turned this year’s campaign upside down.

From the hilarious skit on SNL to this cover of the New Yorker.

Who will get to the phone first?  Looks like Hillary is in the lead on this one. 

Visually, the New Yorker is suggesting that these two could be stronger working together than against each other.

Well, while John McCain tries to look Presidential by visiting the troops in Iraq this weekend, Barack and Hillary continue to rip each other apart.  So, the New Yorker might have a point.

But, you never know, stranger things have happened!  We still could see a Hillary/Barack ticket.

What do you think?