Robert Crumb proposed this wedding cover in 2009, but we turned it down feeling that it was out of step with its times. “I don’t know if gay couples dress like that – in my mind I was more concerned about drawing them so that you couldn’t tell what gender they are. But then, you can do stuff that you think is just funny and unintentionally offend people,” explains Crumb. He says his intention is “to bring to the surface the underlying cancer that’s within all of us whether we know it or not – and for people to see that and maybe laugh at the absurdity of it.”

Photograph: R.Crumb/New Yorker