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The Best of the Beast Illustrations 2017

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The Daily Beast photo team is leading the game in illustration, photo collage and innovative gifs. Here, we round up some of our favorites from 2017.

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

Take cup of Warhol, a dash of Rauschenberg, and the sharp wit of The Daily Beast's editorial team and voilà! You've got a recipe for bold, unique photo illustrations. Here, The Daily Beast photo team & editors share some of their favorites 2017.

Donald Trump’s Paths All Lead Down

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/ The Daily Beast

GOP Senators to Sick Americans: Drop Dead

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

Governors to Trump: Chill Out on the Weed

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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast

Reese vs. Nicole vs. Bette and Joan: Is This the Craziest Emmys Category… Ever?

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Dodgy ‘Hackers’ Target Bellingcat Investigators Who Call BS on Moscow

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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast

Trump Keeps Doing Things He Criticized Clinton For

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

Trump’s Cabinet of Princesses

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

The Breathalyzer’s Effect on Drinking & Driving

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Team Trump Prepares the Shiv for Mitch McConnell: ‘He Needs To Go.’

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

Trump’s Only Master: Cable News

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

You’ve Just Had Sex. Now You Want... Pizza

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

Britain’s ‘Clown’ Prince of Failed Coups Is at It Again

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

It’s Time for Taylor Swift to Denounce Her Neo-Nazi Admirers

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking Gmail Accounts for the Kremlin

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

#MeToo: I Can’t Distinguish What I Do for Myself From What I Do for Men

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Trump, Show Us the Receipts if Summer Zervos Is Lying

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/ The Daily Beast

When Jazz Age Superstar Josephine Baker Spied on the Nazis

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

Hawaii Just Heard What a North Korean Nuclear Attack Would Sound Like

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Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast

Trump’s Twitter Problem—and Ours

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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast

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