Dabu Ch'Wald is the name on the cover-art credit in the masthead of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. It's a mangling of Dave Buchwald, which is who draws the covers, and who runs the Shhirts Library, a shirt shop in Brooklyn where every design gets a catalog number and the parodies are shelved apart under Unauthorized Biographies.

Two shirts for 2600 readers

Code 1959 at checkout takes 25% off either of these. No expiration. US shipping is free.

Emmanuel Goldstein: 1959
A paperback that was never published, with a name and a year on it. If you know, you know. Catalog no. UB-813.

MMDC
Four letters, set the way they'd be carved over a doorway. 2600, written like it belongs on a cornerstone. Catalog no. GS-399.

The covers

Every cover since 1996, newest first. 2600 sells the back issues. Click a cover to see it big.

Autumn 2026: Change Ahead Summer 2026: Lineup Spring 2026: Tide Winter 2025: No Hope Autumn 2025: Hack the Planet Summer 2025: Margaret Thatcher Effect Spring 2025: Barbershop Quartet Winter 2024: 2 Cents Autumn 2024: Parity Summer 2024: Hopeless Spring 2024: Gemspa Winter 2023: Protest Autumn 2023: Boatmen Spring 2023: FORTY YEARS!!! Winter 2022: FOXCONN Protest Autumn 2022: Monty Python Homage Summer 2022: Supreme Court AI Spring 2022: Ukrainian Payphone Winter 2021: Supply Chain Trouble Autumn 2021: Ransomware Note Summer 2021: Forest Fire Spring 2021: #STOPHATE Winter 2020: Capital Pac-Man Autumn 2020: Captcha Summer 2020: Police protest Spring 2020: Dolly Parton Challenge Winter 2019: OK, Boomer Autumn 2019: Fork in the road Summer 2019: Privatology Bust Spring 2019: This is not a computer Winter 2018: Election software update Autumn 2018: 3D printed gun-nut Summer 2018: Don't Like Spring 2018: I CAN HACK CHIPS Winter 2017: Equifax data breach Autumn 2017: Honest Abe Summer 2017: FCC censorship Spring 2017: The Border Winter 2016: Missile Command Hall of Fame Autumn 2016: REPEAT HISTORY Summer 2016: PE6-5000 Spring 2016: Short Court Winter 2015: Mega Autumn 2015: Mar-a-lago Summer 2015: War Room Spring 2015: Pirate's Bay Winter 2014: Scratch off Autumn 2014: Whistle Blower Summer 2014: Heart Bleed Spring 2014: Recap Winter 2013: Anonymous delivery Autumn 2013: TWO-MAN CONTROL Summer 2013: ATM Hack Spring 2013: Shedder Winter 2012: Mars Autumn 2012: 10,000 BTC Reward Summer 2012: Satellite map Spring 2012: The Envelope Winter 2011: TL;DR Autumn 2011: American Gothic Summer 2011: The Message Spring 2011: Jackson Winter 2010: iPad Yellow Pages Autumn 2010: Motherboard Summer 2010: Data tape Spring 2010: Skype Blue Boxing Winter 2009: Emma, the Operator: 1899 Autumn 2009: Emma, the Operator: 1941 Summer 2009: Emma, the Operator: 1976 Spring 2009: Emma, the Operator Winter 2008: Out with the old Autumn 2008: Voting Machine Summer 2008: Death of Radio Spring 2008: Death of Payphones Autumn 2007: Cats' eye view Summer 2007: Rams Spring 2007: Dog control Winter 2006: The Handoff Autumn 2006: The tunnel Summer 2006: Closing in Spring 2006: In orbit Winter 2005: Plane Autumn 2005: Boat Summer 2005: Car Spring 2005: Train Winter 2004: Say Something Autumn 2004: REUNITE! Summer 2004: Children Spring 2004: Bluebxes Winter 2003: STRICTLY ENFORCED Summer 2003: Crucifix Autumn 2002: TIPS Jar Spring 2002: All about the Benjamins Winter 2001: Do Not Enter Autumn 2001: All Your Base Summer 2001: Ford Really Sucks Autumn 2000: Protest Spring 1997: Puck Building Hacked Summer 1996: AT&T

The Digest covers

Each year of the magazine is also collected as The Hacker Digest, a digital-only annual that subscribers get and nobody prints. Every volume gets its own cover, Volume 1 (1984) on. 2600 sells the Digests. Newest first.

Volume 42 (2025) Volume 41 (2024) Volume 40 (2023) Volume 39 (2022): Walrus Volume 38 (2021): Hole in the Wall Volume 37 (2020): Quarantine Volume 36 (2019): Recursive Volume 35 (2018) Volume 34 (2017) Volume 33 (2016) Volume 32 (2015) Volume 31 (2014) Volume 30 (2013) Volume 29 (2012) Volume 28 (2011) Volume 27 (2010) Volume 26 (2009) Volume 25 (2008) Volume 24 (2007) Volume 23 (2006) Volume 22 (2005) Volume 21 (2004) Volume 20 (2003) Volume 19 (2002) Volume 18 (2001) Volume 17 (2000) Volume 16 (1999) Volume 15 (1998) Volume 14 (1997) Volume 13 (1996) Volume 12 (1995) Volume 11 (1994) Volume 10 (1993) Volume 9 (1992) Volume 8 (1991) Volume 7 (1990) Volume 6 (1989) Volume 5 (1988) Volume 4 (1987) Volume 3 (1986) Volume 2 (1985) Volume 1 (1984)