Between the 1989 launch of Entertainment Weekly and its 2019 switch to a monthly, the magazine ran only 19 "in memoriam" covers. Stats:
The covers:
I did not count covers about deceased notables that were not tributes published the week after their deaths:
Standalone tribute magazines (surely an incomplete list as these are harder to track):
Am I missing any?
- 15 men, 4 women
- 9 singers, 7 actors, 3 comedians
- 15 white people, 4 Black
- 11 black and white images, 8 color
- year with most covers (four): 2016
The covers:
Kurt Cobain, 1994
Chris Farley, 1997
Frank Sinatra, 1998
George Harrison, 2001
Katharine Hepburn, 2003
Marlon Brando, 2004
Johnny Carson, 2005
Heath Ledger, 2008
Paul Newman, 2008
Michael Jackson, 2009 **
Patrick Swayze, 2009
Whitney Houston, 2012
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2014
Robin Williams, 2014
David Bowie, 2016
Prince, 2016
George Michael, 2016
Carrie Fisher, 2016
Aretha Franklin, 2018
** EW produced four covers for Michael Jackson's death; the other three:
Jerry Garcia 1995
Leonard Nimoy, 2015
Stan Lee 2018
Luke Perry 2019
Chadwick Boseman 2020
2/9/22 addendum: It was announced today that Entertainment Weekly is ceasing print publication; the last issue will be April 2022. I have been a subscriber since its second year, 1990. Looks like I have to add the magazine itself to this RIP post...
2 comments:
Where is Brandon Lee?
Good memory, ronbo, thanks. Lee's posthumous cover ran around a year after his death, so not in the same category as these, which were run the week after, usually with birth-death years; see note with the Princess Diana cover above.
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