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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

For 13 years now, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative types about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about.

On this podcast, Debbie Milman talks with the New Yorker magazine's celebrated cover artist Barry Blit about where his ideas come from.

Well, you want to have your pen on the page.

I mean, there's times when I'll walk around and try and think of things, but three quarters of the battle is scribbling.

Here's Debbie Milman.

For cartoonists and illustrators, there's no bigger stage than the cover of the New Yorker.

Since 1992, Barry Blit has contributed more than 100 covers and countless illustrations to the magazine.

He is a master of political satire, and he is fully engaged in the Trump era with devastating caricatures

of the people in power. His most controversial cover, however, came during the 2008 campaign

with his illustration of President Obama dressed in Muslim garb, fist-bumping, and armed and afrode Michelle Obama.

Barry Blitz's work has also appeared in many other magazines, as well as in the New York Times.

The best place to see it is in his magnificent new book, titled Simply Blit.

I'm so honored to have him here on Design Matters today to talk about his career

and his extraordinary body of work. Barry Blit, welcome to Design Matters. Thank you, Debbie. I'm

delighted to be here. Barry, I'd like to read the first sentence of your new book. You write.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably

want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like and how my parents were

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