Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Through the Years

With the Presidential election entering its final stretch, we’ve flipped (and clicked) through The New Yorker’s archive of artwork depicting both major-party candidates. Here, we present the fifty most interesting images we found, in chronological order.  The magazine’s first visual reference to Donald Trump came in 1983, in a James Stevenson cartoon about Trump Tower, which was completed that year. Clinton is first mentioned in a Michael Crawford cartoon in 1992, during her husband’s first campaign for President. From there, both Trump and Clinton have been featured on and in dozens of covers, sketchbooks, spot illustrations, cartoons, and featured art. Clinton’s first appearances focus on her clothes and her comments about wanting to pursue her own professional goals, instead of having a life in which she "stayed home and baked cookies." Later, she’s portrayed as a politically active—and politically adept—First Lady. As Connie Bruck wrote in her 1994 Profile, "Hillary the Pol," Clinton "has shown a remarkable resiliency and a willingness to reposition herself as many times as necessary to get the job done—her way." We see Clinton campaigning to become a Senator, serving as Secretary of State, and, most recently, on the trail as a Presidential candidate. The magazine’s depictions of Clinton have changed dramatically over the years. By comparison, Trump’s presentation has stayed essentially unchanged. Mark Singer, in his 1997 Profile, "Trump Solo," wrote, “Of course, the ‘comeback’ Trump is much the same as the Trump of the eighties”—a man who “lives in a zero-sum world of winners and ‘total losers,’ loyal friends and ‘complete scumbags.’ ” Whether in a cartoon or on the magazine’s cover, Trump has been portrayed over the years as a sensationalist figure, whose antics and hair styles always figure prominently. No matter the outcome in November, this archive of work is sure to grow in the months and years to come.