This is a full-on illustration of a homecoming game of Iowa state vs. Colorado where the football team is not the main component of the issue but, rather the fans of both teams. In this game, Iowa lost their streak of winning, they were having a good season until Colorado came along. It was also the first experience of a Cy, ad as the official mascot. I presume this issue was showed before the game either way it was a foreshowing how this game was going to end, since it was late in the season this was a big game. The person next to the Colorado title there are fans that are cheering which can assume the team has won. Next to the title Iowa State is where it is showing an upset, student, while he stares at the others in resentment.
A methodology that helped me infer more about this issue is culture methodology and, the first thing I notice is how white this issue is, which makes me think of the times and how racism was on a high social construct. Making the cover look flat due to the saturated colors, and all the people look the same. Also, there are three woman which I’m surprised by me wouldn’t expect any woman to be there, even though they do get overshadowed by the men especially since they are white. The deception of the people on the cover gives me the idea of who went to these games because, they wouldn’t be making up these people they would actually take account of who the demographic was, and they showed it through this illustration. The first element that drew me into the issue was color at how saturated but, still natural and realistic especially for its time, and how the fans are showing these dramatic expressions. The longer you look at it, you see that there is no contrast between the people and how the people are color coded with their clothing even, two of the women are in similar colors.
