Esquire magazine 1968 Art Director George Lois

R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – we lost a legend, a champion and an inspiration.

George Lois’s powerful Esquire cover in April 1968 of the great Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian was one of the most iconic images of the decade, dramatizing the boxing greats persecution of his beliefs concerning Vietnam, race and religion.

One of the greatest magazine covers ever….of one of the greatest.