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Ed Stein

cartoon

The Rocky Mountain News

Colorado

Cagle

8 August 2005

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/
PCcartoons/stein.asp - broken link

Newsstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue,

Manhattan. 1935.

Photograph: Berenice Abbott

courtesy of Fundacion Mapfre

This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel

Berenice Abbott captured

the egomania and wanton development

of New York’s streetscapes almost a century ago.

The city is still at it.

NYT

April 25, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
lens/berenice-abbott-portraits-of-modernity-new-york.html

magazines UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/
magazines

magazines USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/
1178131312/chinese-magazine-new-jersey-sino-monthly

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/
lens/berenice-abbott-portraits-of-modernity-new-york.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/
business/media/the-not-so-glossy-future-of-magazines.html

magazine / weeklies and glossies UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/nov/17/
how-magazines-helped-shape-society

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/11/
hello-25-years-celebrity-culture

American Society of Magazine Editors USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/
business/media/23mag.html

glossy magazine

women's magazines UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/20/
women-pressandpublishing

music mags UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/oct/13/
mags-power-booze-and-fisticuffs-with-the-music-press-in-pictures

women's magazines USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/
business/media/john-carter-86-is-dead-led-womens-magazines-.html

women's magazines > photographs >

colour to women’s magazine covers USA

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jul/18/
the-big-picture-ruth-orkin-modern-woman-in-new-york-1949

a women's magazine

women's magazines USA

feminist magazine > Spare Rib UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/30/
sparew-rib-reader-book

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/28/
british-library-spare-rib-feminist-magazine-online

The Atlantic Monthly USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/
business/media/william-whitworth-dead.html

The Face UK

originally published from 1980 to 2004,

and relaunched in 2019.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/30/
supermarkets-and-supermodels-the-photography-of-nigel-shafran-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

Teenage Precinct Shoppers, i-D, 1991

Supermarkets and supermodels:

the photography of Nigel Shafran – in pictures

A look back at British photographer Nigel Shafran’s work

takes us from the mid-1980s,

through the iconic magazine years of i-D and The Face,

to a recent resurgence in his unusual approach

to shooting fashion within the pages of Vogue, Love and more.

His new book, The Well, published by Loose Joints,

chronicles his engagement

with the world of commercial photography

Thu 30 Jun 2022 07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/30/
supermarkets-and-supermodels-the-photography-of-nigel-shafran-in-pictures

i-D - founded in 1980 UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/30/
supermarkets-and-supermodels-the-photography-of-nigel-shafran-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

USA > The New Yorker UK, USA

https://www.newyorker.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/
business/media/william-whitworth-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/
obituaries/ved-mehta-celebrated-writer-for-the-new-yorker-dies-at-86.html

http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2006/sep/10/
observermagazine

Mr. Stolley’s inaugural issue of People magazine, in 1974,

put Mia Farrow on the cover.

The magazine quickly became a cash cow for Time Inc.

Photograph: People magazine

Richard Stolley, Founding Editor of People Magazine, Dies at 92

He also scored a major journalistic coup by securing the rights

to the Zapruder film of John F. Kennedy’s assassination

for Life magazine.

NYT

June 22, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/
business/media/richard-stolley-dead.html

People magazine - official debut in March 1974

People magazine

(...)

changed the course of American publishing

with its personality-driven approach to journalism

and (...) has long been one

of the most successful magazines

in the nation’s history,

(...)

Mr. Stolley rose through the ranks at Life

and was assistant managing editor

when its last weekly issue was published

in 1972.

He then went

to Time Inc.’s development group

to help dream up new magazines.

One day a call came from Andrew Heiskell,

chairman of the company,

who said that his wife,

Marian Sulzberger Heiskell,

a member of the family

that controls The New York Times Company,

had suggested a new magazine

that would focus on personalities.

Mr. Heiskell suggested

spinning off the “People” section

of Time magazine

into its own publication.

When a test issue rolled off the presses,

with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

on the cover, it was an instant hit.

Making its official debut in March 1974

with a cover photo of Mia Farrow,

who was starring in the movie

“The Great Gatsby,”

People turned a profit after just 18 months

and proved itself a cash cow.

In Mr. Stolley’s first four years,

its circulation soared to 2.2 million,

with a “pass along” readership of almost 14 million,

which People said was the highest in the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/
business/media/richard-stolley-dead.html

Thrasher Magazine USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/14/
956464916/artists-weirdos-hellriders-and-homies-thrasher-magazine-
turns-40

An assortment of covers from Creem’s history.

Photograph:

Clockwise from top left:

Gary Ciccarelli, Andy Kent, Gary Cooley, Ric Siegel

The Wild Story of Creem,

Once ‘America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine’

A new documentary traces the rise and fall

of the irreverent, boundary-smashing music publication

where Lester Bangs did some of his most famous work.

NYT

Aug. 3, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/
arts/music/creem-magazine-documentary.html

USA > Creem, ‘America’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll Magazine’ UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/01/
creem-gave-you-a-ground-level-excitement-about-music-
the-1970s-rock-magazine-makes-a-comeback

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/
arts/music/creem-magazine-documentary.html

USA > Discovery Girls magazine UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/11/
discovery-girls-magazine-swimsuit-tips-pre-teen-girls

New York Times magazine USA

https://www.nytimes.com/section/magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/
magazine/behind-the-relaunch-of-the-new-york-times-magazine-
by-jake-silverstein.html

USA > Hustler UK

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/
larry-flynt-publisher-of-hustler-magazine-dies-aged-78

UK > Loaded magazine UK

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/27/
loaded-close-21-years-lads-mag

USA > National Geographic USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/12/
592982327/national-geographic-reckons-with-its-past-
for-decades-our-coverage-was-racist

UK > New Musical Express NME UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
nme

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/09/
he-tried-to-get-out-of-the-car-at-80mph-the-stories-behind-nmes-greatest-covers

Sequence UK

Lindsay Anderson,

(...)

was a major figure on the British cultural scene

for much of the second half of the twentieth century,

as film critic (beginning with the influential magazine Sequence

he edited for five years after the Second World War),

as director of documentaries, feature films and commercials

and as theatre director in the West End and on Broadway.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/dec/05/
film

UK > satirical magazine > Private Eye UK

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/
private-eye

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/08/
richard-ingrams-oldie-private-eye

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/23/
ian-hislop-private-eye

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/25/
broadcasting.mondaymediasection

Screw magazine USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/nyregion/
herald-price-fahringer-a-defender-of-free-speech-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/
al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html

Mojo at 20:

from Bob Dylan to Blur,

the editor's top covers – in pictures UK 28 October 2013

Editor-in-chief Phil Alexander

has selected his favourite 20 covers

of the music magazine

from the past 20 years

– the 20th-anniversary

issue of Mojo

is out on 29 October

http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/oct/28/
mojo-top-20-covers-music-in-pictures

USA > Punk magazine UK

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2016/feb/06/
snapshots-the-covers-of-punk-magazine

USA > Maxim

America’s most successful

young men’s lifestyle magazine UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/media/felix-dennis

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/23/
felix-dennis

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/
business/media/felix-dennis-67-flamboyant-publisher-is-dead.html

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/02/
nine-lives-of-felix-dennis

Playboy

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/09/28/
obituaries/hugh-hefner-pictures/s/28hefner-SS-1.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
business/media/playboy-mansion-hefner.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
opinion/hugh-hefner-playboy.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/
531884820/-playboy-founder-hugh-hefner-who-championed-free-speech-and-smut-dies-at-91

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/
obituaries/hugh-hefner-dead.html

USA > MAD Magazine USA

a must-read for teens

of the baby boomer generation

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/
mad-magazine

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/
1169162240/mad-magazine-cartoonist-al-jaffee-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/
arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/
arts/paul-coker-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/04/
738767035/satirical-staple-mad-to-exit-newsstands-and-recycle-its-classic-material

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/
business/media/mad-magazine-publication-demise.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/
business/media/jack-davis-illustrator-known-for-mad-magazine-dies-at-91.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/28/
487804779/jack-davis-cartoonist-who-helped-found-mad-magazine-
dies

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/01/
308651403/long-time-mad-magazine-editor-dies-at-88

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/
business/media/soul-of-mad-magazine-al-feldstein-dies-at-88.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/
books/02jaffee.html

teens magazines USA

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-08-29-
teen-mags-net_x.htm

1960s > USA > influential left-wing magazine USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/
arts/design/dugald-stermer-illustrator-and-ramparts-art-director-dies-at-74.html

Glamour USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/
business/media/23mag.html

American Vogue USA

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/27/
pressandpublishing.fashion

Vogue > UK edition USA

http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/feb/07/
vogue-happy-100th-birthday-magazine-exhibition

Hello! UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/11/
hello-25-years-celebrity-culture

USA > Rolling Stone UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/16/
jann-wenner-rolling-stone-interview-memoir

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/
arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/
opinion/rolling-stone-magazine.html

Zoo Weekly UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/18/
zoo-magazine-shuts-falling-sales-accusations-sexism

Over time,

the magazine transitioned to covers featuring

“race-affirming portrayals of art,

accomplishment, work, leisure and community”

that made possible new conceptions

of collective interests and politics.

Photograph:

Courtesy EBONY Media Operations, LLC.

The Radical Blackness of Ebony Magazine

NYT

Aug. 11, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/
opinion/ebony-jet-magazine.html

black magazines

Jet USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/
arts/aretha-franklin-dead-civil-rights.html

black magazines > Ebony and Essence, Black Enterprise, Jet USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/
1083195244/niecy-nash-jessica-betts-lgbtq-couple-essence

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/07/
310529571/after-6-decades-jet-magazine-decides-to-go-all-digital

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/07/
310476542/after-six-decades-as-a-staple-jet-mag-ends-its-print-run

black magazines > Ebony USA

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/31/
1049745857/under-new-ownership-
ebony-magazine-bets-on-boosting-black-business

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/
opinion/ebony-jet-magazine.html

black magazines > Emerge USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/
business/media/george-curry-journalist-with-a-mission-
to-serve-black-readers-dies-at-69.html

black newspapers > Muhammad Speaks

was one of the most widely read newspapers

ever produced by an African-American organization.

It was the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam

from 1960 to 1975,

founded by a group of Elijah Muhammad's ministers,

including Malcolm X.

After Elijah Muhammad's death in 1975,

it was renamed several times

after Warith Deen Mohammed

moved the Nation of Islam into mainstream Sunni Islam,

culminating in The Muslim Journal.

A number of rival journals were also published,

including The Final Call under Louis Farrakhan,

claiming to continue the message of the original.

- Wikipedia, 25 June 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Muhammad_Speaks

Life USA

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=96339988 - November 2, 2008

Life USA

Search millions of historic photos

Search millions of photographs

from the LIFE photo archive,

stretching from the 1750s (sic)

to today.

Most were never published

and are now available for the first time

through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

The Saturday Evening Post USA

The Saturday Evening Post

is an American magazine,

currently published six times a year.

It was issued weekly under this title

from 1897 until 1963,

then every two weeks until 1969.

From the 1920s to the 1960s,

it was one of the most widely circulated

and influential magazines

within the American middle class,

with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features

that reached two million homes every week.

The magazine declined in readership

through the 1960s,

and in 1969 The Saturday Evening Post

folded for two years

before being revived as a quarterly publication

with an emphasis on medical articles in 1971.

As of the late 2000s,

The Saturday Evening Post

is published six times a year

by the Saturday Evening Post Society,

which purchased the magazine in 1982.

The magazine was redesigned in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Saturday_Evening_Post

Norman Rockwell’s

322 covers for The Post USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/
arts/design/norman-rockwells-america-newly-up-for-bid.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/09/18/
arts/artsspecial/20130919AUCTION.html

Liberty Magazine USA

https://www.libertymagazine.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/
arts/design/17liberty.html

Picture Post

photojournalistic magazine

published in the United Kingdom

from 1938 to 1957.

It is considered

a pioneering example of photojournalism

and was an immediate success,

selling 1,700,000 copies a week

after only two months.

It has been called the UK's

equivalent of Life magazine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Picture_Post

Life

American magazine published weekly

from 1883 to 1972,

as an intermittent "special" until 1978,

a monthly from 1978 until 2000

and an online supplement since 2008.

During its golden age from 1936 to 1972,

Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine

known for the quality of its photography,

and was one of the nation's most popular magazines,

regularly reaching one-quarter of the population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Life_(magazine)

Thurston Hopkins UK 19 April 2013

Picture Post photographer

Thurston Hopkins at 100

- audio slideshow

On his 100th birthday this week,

one of the great photojournalists

of the 20th century,

Thurston Hopkins,

talks about his career

as a photographer at Picture Post

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/audioslideshow/2013/apr/19/
picture-post-thurston-hopkins

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/apr/12/
photography-thurston-hopkins-photojournalist-picture-post

Bert Hardy UK 1913-1995

A Picture Post photographer

from the 1940s onwards,

Hardy documented everything

from the horrors of Belsen

to monks in Tibet

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/09/
never-had-it-so-good-bert-hardys-archive-of-mid-century-life-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/11/
the-big-picture-bert-hardy-photojournalism-
war-peace-striking-chinese-seamen-liverpool

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/09/
never-had-it-so-good-bert-hardys-archive-of-mid-century-life-in-pictures

weekly

political weekkly > New Statesman UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/23/
new-statesman-alastair-campbell-labour

issue

special issue

Illustrated London News - launched in 1842 UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/15/
illustrated-london-news-archive-online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2010/apr/14/
illustrated-london-news

Illustrated London News archive goes online 2010

A unique visual archive

of 19th century Victorian Britain,

including illustrations

and photographs of events

ranging from

the Great Exhibition of 1851

to the Boer war,

will be available online

for the first time from today.

The Illustrated London News archive

holds 250,000 pages

and as many as three-quarters

of a million illustrations,

from as far back as 1842.

At its peak, ILN had

a circulation of about 300,000

and was the publication of choice

for the Victorian middle classes,

transforming illustrations

into a credible, factual,

news reporting tool.

Previously,

illustration had been used

mainly for political caricatures

or for sensational events

like public hangings.

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/
illustrated-london-news

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/15/
illustrated-london-news-archive-online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2010/apr/14/
illustrated-london-news

Harper's Bazar Magazine

Punch Magazine

https://www.punch.co.uk/index

Private Eye UK

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?top=1

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/11/
private-eye-50

https://www.theguardian.com/news/1963/jan/07/
mainsection.fromthearchive

1960s > counterculture magazine Oz UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/04/
richard-neville-obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/
business/media/felix-dennis-67-flamboyant-publisher-is-dead.html

sales UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/18/
zoo-magazine-shuts-falling-sales-accusations-sexism

plummeting sales UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/18/
zoo-magazine-shuts-falling-sales-accusations-sexism

flagging sales UK

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/18/
zoo-magazine-shuts-falling-sales-accusations-sexism

Richard Brockway Stolley USA 1928-2021

founding editor of People magazine

writer and editor at Life magazine,

where he covered

the civil rights movement in the South

and the space race,

among other major stories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/
business/media/richard-stolley-dead.html

Felix Dennis, center,

with James Anderson, left, and Richard Neville,

editors of Oz,

after being found guilty of corrupting public morals in 1971.

Photograph: United Press International

Felix Dennis, 67, Flamboyant Publisher, Is Dead

NYT

JUNE 23, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/
business/media/felix-dennis-67-flamboyant-publisher-is-dead.html

Felix Dennis UK 1947-2014

flamboyant, boastfully profligate,

immensely successful British businessman

who built a publishing empire

that included Maxim,

America’s most successful

young men’s lifestyle magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/
business/media/felix-dennis-67-flamboyant-publisher-is-dead.html

Geraldine Emeline Rhoads USA 1914-2013

in 16 years as editor in chief

of Woman’s Day magazine

(she) guided it toward

covering the women’s movement

while still embracing

its tradition of homespun advice

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/
business/media/geraldine-rhoads-dies-at-98-
edited-womans-day-magazine.html

Alvin Goldstein USA 1936-2013

scabrous publisher

whose Screw magazine

pushed hard-core pornography

into the cultural mainstream

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/
al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html

Priscilla Langford Buckley USA 1921-2012

journalist who was the longtime

managing editor of National Review,

the conservative magazine

founded by

her brother William F. Buckley Jr.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/nyregion/
priscilla-buckley-who-edited-at-national-review-dies-at-90.html

Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione USA 1930-2010

founded Penthouse magazine

in the 1960s

and built a pornographic media empire

that broke taboos,

outraged the guardians of taste

and made billions

before drowning

in a slough of bad investments

and Internet competition

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/
business/media/21guccione.html

Les Line / Leslie Dale Line USA 1935-2010

editor of Audubon Magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/
business/media/31line.html

Curtiss Martin Andersoh USA 1928-2010

editor and developer of U.S. magazines

The Ladies Home Journal, Hearst Magazines >

Country Living and Smart Money

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/
business/media/29anderson.html

"We this week give

an Illustration of the Talking Fish,

an account of which appeared

in a previous Number.

This extraordinary amphibious creature

is by this time probably

as well known to our readers

as to ourselves.

It has, we believe,

excited much curiosity,

and been visited by multitudes.

Though now tame and domestic,

it is naturally ferocious.

It is certainly remarkable

for its size and weight

measuring twelve feet in length,

and weighing eight hundredweight.

It has two rows of teeth

and is covered with fine hair.

It eats nearly forty five pounds of fish

per diem Its fins are curious.

They resemble hands,

and will bend and develop

a hand with joints

like the human wrists and elbows. "

Illustrated London News

May 28th, 1859

The Performing Fish

http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1859.htm

http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/noframeiln.htm

Charles. Sweet Style of Trowsers, Gus!"

Gus. "Ya-as! And so Doosed Comfortable.

They're called Pantaloons A LA Peg-Top!"

Charles. No -- Re-ally!"

The Latest Fashion

Punch Magazine

1857

Punch 33 (4 July 1857),

p. 8.

https://victorianweb.org/periodicals/punch/61.html

Corpus of news articles

Media > Magazines

Dugald Stermer, Illustrator

and Ramparts Art Director,

Dies at 74

December 7, 2011

The New York Times

By STEVEN HELLER

Dugald Stermer, who achieved renown and sometimes angered the government as the art director of the influential left-wing magazine Ramparts in the 1960s, died on Friday in San Francisco. He was 74.

The cause was respiratory and cardiac failure, his daughter Crystal Williams Stermer said.

An accomplished illustrator, Mr. Stermer was also known for books of his own artwork celebrating the beauty of endangered species.

He was doing design work in Houston — and developing his trademark look: jeans, cowboy boots and leather vest — when, in the late 1960s, the advertising executive Howard Gossage recommended him for a job in San Francisco as art director of the revamped Ramparts, a journal of politics, culture and investigative reporting. (Founded in 1962, it closed in 1975.)

Mr. Stermer created a classical, bookish typographic format that influenced the designs of the early Rolling Stone and New York magazines. As art director he oversaw satiric covers critical of the C.I.A. and opposing the Vietnam War, and he persuaded Norman Rockwell to contribute a portrait of the peace activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell.

One antiwar cover, in December 1967, provoked the government’s ire by showing the hands of four men burning their draft cards. The hands belonged to Mr. Stermer and three fellow editors. They were subsequently called before a federal grand jury in New York, accused of instigating action harmful to the best interests of the United States by encouraging civil disobedience.

But prosecutors “decided it wouldn’t be good public relations to indict magazine editors, so after our testimony they let us go,” Mr. Stermer said in an interview for the blog of the Society of Publication Designers.

After leaving Ramparts in 1970, he collaborated with Susan Sontag on the first American book of Castro-era Cuban posters, “The Art of Revolution.” But he always wanted to make his own art. Whenever he redesigned a magazine, he commissioned himself to do some illustrations. This led to a few Time magazine covers rendered in a stylized, posterlike manner, which Mr. Stermer admitted was lifeless — “an excuse for not being able to draw well,” he reminisced this year.

So he decided to teach himself to draw in a classical way. During the past three decades he worked on hundreds of advertisements, book covers and posters, as well as the official medal for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He also taught at the California College of the Arts, where he was chairman of the illustration department at his death.

Mr. Stermer’s passion for making exquisitely detailed color drawings of animals, plants and insects evolved partly from a magazine cover he created using a portrait he drew of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. Always keen on expressing something “beyond the surface image,” he captured Garcia’s wild, mischievous side, transforming him into a bear.

Mr. Stermer devoted considerable time to naturalist work for magazines and books. Among his books are “Vanishing Creatures,” “Vanishing Flora” and “Birds & Bees: A Sexual Study.”

He also designed and illustrated for Outdoor, Sierra and other environmental magazines. His art was shown in a one-man exhibition in 1986 at the California Academy of Sciences, where a portion of his San Francisco studio was reassembled and displayed.

Born on Dec. 17, 1936, Dugald Robert Stermer was a native Californian who majored in art at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in the 1950s became a graphic designer with Richard Kuhn & Associates. He took a job in Houston when the design business there was booming.

Mr. Stermer’s two marriages, to Carol Love Bacon, who has since died, and Jeanie Kortum, ended in divorce. In addition to his daughter Crystal, he is survived by a sister, Robin Crickmore; four children from his marriage to Ms. Bacon — Dugald, Megan Blue, Christopher and Colin — and five grandchildren.

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