“LET’S GO TO THE TRANS-LUX AND HISS ROOSEVELT.” My second comment on the New Yorker “Fat Cats” cover is that it is maintaining a New Yorker tradition which stretches back to the twenties and thirties—-the cartoons and comic pieces featuring rich people juxtaposed with ads targeting upscale people.
The tradition started with Peter Arno, who did 99 New Yorker covers, says wikipedia. This entry at the Library of Congress site features a famous Arno cartoon from 1936:”Cartoon shows a group of middle-aged socialites, rather scantily dressed (perhaps for a costume party), proposing to go to a local theater to hiss President Roosevelt.”