The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're on the cover of any magazine, you certainly get recognized more.
The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.