Saturday, May 01, 2010

Chris Ware's rejected cover for Fortune magazine

One question: why would you commission this in the first place, but then why would you, at the last minute apparently, cancel it? (Okay, it's pretty obvious, really, why somebody got cold feet.)

It is a towering piece of art (literally), and perhaps the most scathing commentary on the American way of capitalism I have ever seen.

You need to be able to view it close up. I suggest saving it to your own computer and opening it in a viewer that allows you to zoom in, in order to see as many of the little details as possible.