American illustrator John Hendrix  has a very interesting blog post about his recent cover illustration for The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association which you can read here.

Adrian Tomine‘s cover for the latest issue of In The City.

As it states in its first issue, The Stripe is a new Dublin freesheet that offers “the inside track on what gig to hit when you’re trying to fake hipness to impress a date.”  I haven’t laughed so much in a long time reading it. Above  is Illustrators Ireland member Steve McCarthy creating the cover for the current issue (finished cover below). It comes out every two weeks with issue 2 out this Thursday. Photos: Malcolm Mc Gettigan

The latest issue of Varoom magazine, with a cover by Christoph Niemann includes: How To Do How To Do films with illustrative wit; five lessons from the comics festival in Angoulême; and  the educational, intellectual and practical value of using illustration across all disciplines in school. Preview it here.

Creative Review’s second Illustration Annual is now open for entries. The selected work will appear in the July 2011 issue of the magazine. The deadline for work is March 10 and the fee is £40. More details here.

Punt, edited by Emma Somers, is a new platform for narrative journalism in Ireland, providing critical but optimistic analysis, along with a healthy dose of the arts, photography and illustration, interviews and satire. The October issue is out now at a cost of €2 featuring an utterly brilliant cover by Mr. Steve McCarthy as well as contributions from comics creators Luke F, Pablo Mayer and Eoin Ryan. For a list of places you can pick it up, click here.

IGI Member, Eoin Coveney, share with us one of his last commissioned work. A very nice project indeed.
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Chris Ware’s solution to an annual 500 cover feature of Fortune Magazine proved a bit too close to the bone. Daniel Pelavin’s clean typographic solution won out in the end. Here’s a selection of previous cover designs.

Last week in San Francisco McSweeney’s launched Panorama, a ’21st century newspaper prototype, complete with investigative reporting, comics and sports coverage’. An interesting experiment given the alleged decline of newspapers. And choc full of illustration talent. Here’s an interesting radio interview with the Publisher Oscar Villalon and Dave Eggers on the project. Here’s a Flickr set of pics by Steve Rhodes. The Newspaper itself can be ordered here. Photo: Steve Rhodes.

John Paul Thurlow has created an interesting ongoing series of drawings of his magazine collection. You can check them all out on Flickr, or his blog. Here’s an interview on It’s Nice That with JP.