someone reminded me of this magazine cover! i remember seeing it as a kid and it was stunning then, as it is now. the context of it is history now, and whatever political charge this had to me as a clueless child is about the same as it is now.
but this bear, so lovingly rendered. carefully shaded in what was probably colored pencil. delicately adorned in jewelry. red satin hugging her curves. this illustration upstages the news it is about so hard that i couldn't have recalled the text or even what magazine it was.
the artist is Carter Goodrich.
and that's why i'm a gay furry now