Maclean's Magazine Cover

This Maclean's cover depicts a hockey player in mid-stride, rendered in bold illustration by Joseph Farelly. The athlete wears a striped uniform in red, black, and white, gripping his stick with gloved hands as he leans forward in concentrated motion. The composition captures the dynamic energy of early twentieth-century sport illustration, with careful attention to anatomical detail and fabric texture. Maclean's, Canada's national magazine published twice monthly, competed in the era when illustrated pulp magazines dominated popular reading. Though Maclean's positioned itself as a general interest publication rather than a genre magazine, its covers employed the same vibrant painted imagery and dramatic figure work that characterized adventure and sports pulp publications, which collectively shaped the visual language later adopted by comic books.