In the wake of actor Liam Neeson's pro-carriage horse NY Times op-ed—and the Daily News' campaign to save the industry and carriage horse opponents' introduction of a horseless carriage—artist Bruce McCall has waded into the fray with this week's cover for The New Yorker. He tells the magazine, "I’ve never been in one of those carriages—they’re too slow for this fast-paced life."
McCall lives near Central Park and says of his work, "The Cart Before The Horses," "I didn’t take a great political stance about it. I just thought it was funny to see the horses pulled by the driver." But he added, "I’m on the side of the defenseless animals, but the other point about horses for me is that they clog traffic. I drive a lot in New York, and getting behind one of those carriages is a roadblock. They commandeer the road; they’re turning onto Seventh Avenue or Eighth Avenue to go to or from the stables, and all traffic has to stop for them. They always take precedence, and that seems weird. A nineteenth-century traffic jam in this day and age seems silly."
Guess it would have been too obvious if he drew Mayor de Blasio duking it out with Neeson.
