Somebody at Fortune magazine thought it would be a great idea to have Chris Ware draw the cover for their Fortune 500 issue.
But somebody at Fortune didn’t know that Chris Ware is a pretty observant fellow. What he turned in proved to be a bit too close to home for the Mammonites, and was rejected.
Milton Friedman Paycheck Advance? Fabrica de Exploitacion? Helicopters airlifting cash from the treasury into the banks? Fortune: “Hey, sure, we do business journalism..but not business journalism.”
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Link thankfully swiped from Chris Herbert on Twitter.

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