The New Yorker was launched in 1925 and offers reportage, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons. From the beginning, its founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was not 'edited for the old lady in Dubuque.' The New Yorker has provided great literature in short stories by acclaimed authors such as John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, and Shirley Jackson. From the first issue, the iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made the New Yorker's covers unique and striking. These features continue today with the impressive and sometimes controversial covers by artists like Peter Arno, William Steig, Saul Steinberg, Jean-Jacques Sempé, and Art Spiegelman.