Even though Mad magazine doesn’t exist anymore, it seems like everyone knows this face. Maybe because he’s now in the White House?

Click the picture to see the metamorphosis…

This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2008.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...