A Rejected New Yorker Cover

Every once in a while, quite rarely actually, I have an idea that could work as a New Yorker cover. So I usually make a sketch in either pencil, watercolor, or both. Then I email it to Francoise Mouly and Mina Kaneko. I sent them this idea for the issue running Halloween week 2015. By the title of this post you already know the outcome.

Oddly enough, this week they ran an article titled "Are Cats Domesticated?"

Here is the pencil sketch.