New Yorker set to run ripoff cover art?

Published November 27, 2014 2:09pm ET



Artwork set to appear on the cover of the December edition of the New Yorker will apparently do so without any mention of a nearly identical political cartoon published in late August.

The forthcoming New Yorker cover, which is being hailed in the press as “excellent” by Ezra Klein on Vox.com and “brilliantly simple” by Business Insider, shows St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch, split down the middle, one side white and one side black, symbolizing the recent tension over the shooting death of Ferguson, Mo., resident Michael Brown.

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