Best Magazine Covers of the Year

Ad Age posted their favorite magazines of the year, along with the ones no longer with us:

TEXAS MONTHLY
This cover took home the "Best Coverline" award from the Magazine Publishers of America at last fall's American Magazine Conference, but it's even more than that. It's also a genuinely frightening image. Beyond even that, the cover is an hommage to perhaps the best cover ever, National Lampoon's 1973 masterpiece that threatened, "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog."

Obviously I'm biased. I think I love that cover even more because talking to TJ Tucker about designing that illustration makes me feel like I was part of the original hype behind it. It's prol a good idea I don't work there, I'd be too busy gushing over everyone's perfection to actually get any work done. I mean, I should TOTALLY work there, every place needs lackey's like that.