MAD cover makes Time's top ten

Mad Magazine's magnificent Alfred E. Obama cover made it into the number ten slot on the Time list of 1o Best Covers of the Year. Rolling Stone's Obama cover, a much more conventional treatment, made it to number three. The New Yorker got the top spot for its Obama cover (by Bob Staake), which, as Arthur Hochstein writes, derives its strength from the editorial self-awareness that gives The New Yorker "great freedom on its covers, allowing them to speak in code to the members of the tribe."