MAD magazine’s longtime public face, Alfred E. Neuman — with his big ears and goofy grin — sports a Bieberesque bowl of hair on the cover of the Feb. 16 issue.

The headlines: Justin Bieber. “HIS STUPID HAIR!” “HIS DUMB BOOK!” “HIS TERRIBLE MOVIE!” “HIS AWFUL MUSIC!”

Bieber has already been on the cover of Vanity Fair, certainly no easy accomplishment.

“That was probably the highlight of his career and being on the cover of MAD is the lowlight,” John Ficarra, editor-in-chief of MAD, said with a laugh.

But it may also be another step in the singer’s saturation of all things media and of course, making the cover of the long-published magazine that has been pushing humor, pathos and Alfred E. Neuman for nearly six decades is certainly nothing to sneeze at.

Ficarra said it made sense to put the 16-year-old singer on the cover of issue No. 508 and then playfully mock and satirize him within the pages, too.

“We like to do what we call Zeitgeist covers. When we found that his movie was debuting just about the same time we would be coming with the issue,” it all fell into place, Ficarra said. “We knew he’d be all over the place.”

I used to read MAD all the time. I might just have to pick up this issue.