Fortune Magazine’s Hated Chris Ware Cover

Fortune magazine rejected this cover by comic book genius Chris Ware, presumably because of the Fortune 500 folks dancing and singing all over our financial wreckage. The best part is that mockups aren’t free, so Fortune essentially paid the artist to tell them to go fuck themselves. The handy map to America’s industrialized death includes an auto trash pile, a 401K cemetery, submerged NOLA homes, Tea Party and doomsday cults, sweatshops, foreclosures and money dump trucks going from every disaster to the Capitol. This could make a nice mural somewhere.

Fortune Unveils McCain’s Campaign Strategy: Terrorism

Taking a cue from Karl Rove’s playbook, John McCain’s senior adviser, Charlie Black, claimed that a terrorist attack on American soil could help the Republican presidential candidate considerably in an interview with Fortune magazine. Black has since apologized for the fear bating comment. The timing couldn’t be better, with that publication readying its double covers that features duel interviews with an energetic Obama looking right at the camera and a tired McCain with green stress wristlet looking away. When the candidates were asked, what is the “gravest long-term threat to the U.S. economy?” McCain, following Black’s lead, touts the threat of terrorism:

“Well, I would think that the absolute gravest threat is the struggle that we’re in against Islamic extremism, which can affect, if they prevail, our very existence. Another successful attack on the United States of America could have devastating consequences.”

Yeah, like getting McCain elected!