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'Breaking Bad's Walter White, Bashar Assad share this week's New Yorker cover

Here's how cartoonist Barry Blitt portrayed Walter White and Bashar Assad on a single New Yorker cover.

By KATE STANTON, UPI.com

The New Yorker's most recent cover pairs two "chemists" currently making headlines abroad and at home -- the cancerous anti-hero of television's most-discussed drama and a real-life Syrian dictator linked to sarin attacks on his own people.

Barry Blitt, who frequently contributes cartoons and illustrations to the magazine, drew meth-maker Walter White entering his lab to find Bashar Assad meddling with the tubes and beakers.

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The New Yorker explained that Blitt, who has 77 covers under his belt, "often turns to current events for inspiration."

“Seems like there’s never a shortage of real life villains to make even the most conscience-free fictional character look comic in comparison -- alas," Blitt said.

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