King Weiner Or Carlos Kong: New Yorker's Take On New York's Mayoral Candidate

Here is the cover of the latest New Yorker magazine, which one can only hope puts to rest the latest surreal episode of a man who has become a walking parody of himself, and which increasingly blurs the boundary between US politics and reality TV (and cunningly so: 69% of 18-29 year olds believe he should continue his mayoral campaign).

From the creator:

“With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn’t already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week’s cover. He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building, and then King Kong, the iconic image of him straddling it. And then Weiner sexting, his head tilted and looking a certain way—I just stumbled upon the image as I was sketching. But all I could think about while working on this piece was, ‘Will Weiner still be in the race by the time it runs?’”