Papoon is depicted without his characteristic paper bag over his head (with eyeholes), and is instead drawn as a dark-skinned man wearing a turbine bumping fists with a woman holding a carbine.

Papoon himself dismissed the cartoon as "silly," but champaign workers for the Democarts and Repurblicans were quick to condemn the cover art.

Political pundits are claiming that the story isn't the cover itself, or the political reaction to the cover, but that by now, the story is the reaction to the reacton to the cover.