This isn't the first time that Shepard Fairey (Jux cover artist, November 2007), but perhaps this year has the strongest sentiment. For their annual Person of the Year issue, TIME Magazine chose "The Protestor," and had Shepard create the cover art for the special honor. Looks good in our book.

Its 2011, the era of the digital photography and most news journalism magazines using photography on their covers, so we appreciate a good cover illustration. Tim O'Brien just illustrated the cover of TIME with a piece depicting Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Classic.