Badgered!

[This Week's Issue] Every time I look at the cover, I think 4 things:

1. John Kilbourn's caricature of Mayor Ralph Becker looks not only like Becker, but also like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and actor Paul Eddington, who played a prime minister in the British TV series Yes, Prime Minister.

Is Kilbourn trying to say that Becker is sort of the prime minister of Salt Lake City? I suppose, in a sense, Becker is.

2. The cop illustration looks like it was drawn by a completely different artist.

3. That font will be the Cooper Black of the next decade.

4. "Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger ..."

(Brandon Burt)