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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Media / Books Everybody Knows That Chris Ware Is a Genius...

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM

...but his rejected cover for Fortune's 500th issue is some kind of satiric masterpiece. I can totally understand why Fortune rejected the piece—they're probably not supportive of subversive humor on the cover of their magazine—but all the tiny jokes embedded into this thing are really amazing. Click to enlarge:

Or go to The Beat to download a larger-than-life version of the cover for maximum enjoyment.

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Paul,
I have the most sold issue of Granta magazine featuring his artwork on the cover. I've been subscribing to Granta for ten years. It is one of the coolest covers ever and the subject is "Chicago". Mr. Ware resides in Oak Park, IL (a cool suburb of Chicago) where I'm from.

Posted by lark on April 22, 2010 at 2:48 PM

The little Stocks 'n' Bonds Casino makes me wonder if anyone's ever made a Wall Street themed casino in Las Vegas.

Posted by Ben on April 22, 2010 at 2:52 PM

the little guantanamo, greece, mexico, and china were all amazing.

Posted by Cook on April 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM

This makes me love Chris Ware even more. It's a shame that the cover was rejected.

Posted by emilythehaikubot

on April 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM

I bet the magazine's founding editors would have accepted this. A shame they're such sticks in the mud now.

Posted by Levislade

on April 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM

Yep. Brilliant.

Posted by PTrig on April 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM

@2:

It's gotta be somewhere in that rat's warren of a casino floor at New York, New York...

Posted by COMTE

on April 22, 2010 at 3:17 PM

Maybe they rejected it for misspelling "Cemetery", which seems like an un-Chris-Ware-like thing to do. Oops.

Posted by Fnarf

on April 22, 2010 at 3:29 PM

TV networks won't allow Adbusters to buy airtime to promote Buy Nothing Day, much less pay them to make spots condemning Capitalism. not surprising.

Posted by Max Solomon on April 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM

@2, not a whole casino, but there is a "Wall Street Fever" slot machine: http://www.latestcasinobonuses.com/view/…

Posted by Fnarf

on April 22, 2010 at 3:44 PM

#2 and #10 - I was just gonna say I'm sure I've seen Wall Street slots at one of the Spokane-area casinos.

That cover is pretty great.

Posted by Dougsf on April 22, 2010 at 3:49 PM

Great new book about Ware:

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1292

Go buy at your local comic book store.

Posted by Chicago Fan on April 22, 2010 at 4:03 PM

@11: Really? Do you remember which casino?

Posted by TVDinner

on April 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM

That's fantastic. I think my favorite part is the elephant tea kettle.

Posted by ly_yng on April 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM

@13 - Maybe the Couer d'Alene Casino? Forget where it was, exactly. It was on a reservation in Idaho, somewhere loosely between Spokane and St. John, WA, if you can imagine where that is.

Posted by Dougsf on April 22, 2010 at 6:26 PM