Illustrator Birgit Schõssow on learning that her image would be on the cover of the Feb. 4, 2013 issue: "For a German illustrator, the goal can seem so very far away. Now, I’m so thrilled. I’ve never made an image with so few things on it, and there it is.” Click-through for a slideshow of past New Yorker covers about winter sports: http://nyr.kr/YzAF1F