Mad #549

MAD #549 delivers the magazine's annual year-in-review broadside with a cover by Mark Fredrickson that puts Alfred E. Neuman — dressed as a golf caddy and carrying a full bag of clubs — alongside a caricature of Donald Trump mid-swing on a green, all while a massive nuclear mushroom cloud billows dramatically behind them both. The cover text promises MAD's rundown of "The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017," with Trump, Weinstein, and North Korea called out by name. It's a sharp, gleefully irreverent snapshot of the anxious absurdity that defined 2017, rendered with Fredrickson's characteristically polished caricature work.