“After I procrastinate at my desk all day, I need to get out to get work done; so I go to a café, or to the library, or . . . to the Staten Island ferry,” Jorge Colombo, who drew this week’s cover on an iPad, said. (Watch the video below to see his drawing process in action.) “The ferry is a great place to work: there’s the smell of the water, and late at night there aren’t many people. It’s like being in a grand hotel lobby. The trick, though, is to be one of the first when you disembark in Staten Island so you can get right back on the next departing boat. Otherwise, you’ll end up having to spend half an hour in Staten Island.”
Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
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