Covers of the Week: Bernie and Sid, Both Vicious

This week, a Ponzi schemer and a punk rocker adorn our two favorite magazine covers of the week. First up, and a likely contender for Cover of the Year honors, is New York‘s oh-so-timely nod to both Oscar winner Heath Ledger and Bernie Madoff in a maniacal Joker illustration by Darrow (the brainchild of New York photo director Jody Quon). Inside, the feature by Steve Fishman puts “The Monster Mensch” under the microscope, revealing “a tic, a nervous schoolboy’s double blink, as if cleaning a windshield, and occasionally a stammer.”

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