LOS ANGELES—Time magazine has named The Advocate’s May 2009 “Porn Panic” cover among the Top Ten Magazine Covers of the Year. The Advocate is the only LGBT publication acknowledged on the list, alongside such mainstream publications as The New Yorker, New York magazine, W, and Interview.
Describing the cover, Time’s Arthur Hochstein wrote, “This clever and hilarious cover either consciously or unconsciously pays homage to the famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. The article it sells is about how the recession has affected the porn industry—hard times indeed! The photo suggests, among other things, that if it gets bad enough, movie producers may have to substitute blow-up dolls for flesh-and-blood actors. The movies may be rated X, but this cover gets an A.”
The Advocate’s staff, of course, was pleased.
“We design every Advocate cover with the intention of engaging readers,” said Jon Barrett, editorial director for The Advocate Group. “It is especially rewarding in this instance to know that we did that and caught the eye of magazine design experts at a publication as well respected as Time.”
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