Editing Chris Ware (section)

===''Fortune'' 500 cover===
In 2010, Ware designed the cover for ''[[Fortune magazine|Fortune]]'' magazine's "Fortune 500" issue, but it was rejected.<ref>[http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/04/22/chris-wares-rejected-fortune-cover/ ComicsBeat.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428134645/http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/04/22/chris-wares-rejected-fortune-cover/ |date=April 28, 2010 }}</ref> Ware had mentioned the work at a panel at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo on April 16, as first noted in an April 20 blog post by Matthew J. Brady.<ref name="indiepulp.blogspot.com">{{Cite web | url=http://indiepulp.blogspot.com/2010/04/c2e2-2010-pantheon-panel-featuring.html | title=C2E2 2010: The Pantheon panel, featuring Chris Ware and Dash Shaw}}</ref> The cover, featuring the circle-shaped humans common in Ware's more broadly socially satirical comic-strips, turned the numbers 500 into skyscrapers looming over the continental United States. On the roofs, corporate bosses drink, dance, and sun themselves as a helicopter drops a shovelful of money down for them. Below, among signs reading "Credit Default Swap Flea Market," "Greenspan Lube Pro," and "401K Cemetery," a helicopter scoops money out of the US Treasury with a shovel, cars pile up in Detroit, and flag-waving citizens party around a boiling tea kettle in the shape of an elephant. In the Gulf of Mexico, homes are sinking, while hooded prisoners sit in Guantanamo, a "Factory of Exploitation" keeps going in Mexico, China is tossing American dollars into the Pacific, and the roof of bankrupted Greece's Treasury has blown off. A spokesperson for the magazine only said that, as is their practice, they had commissioned a number of possible covers from different artists, including Ware.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gawker.com/5523119/fortune-magazine-rejects-satirical-chris-ware-cover |title=''Fortune'' Magazine Rejects Satirical Chris Ware Cover |access-date=2010-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426125121/http://gawker.com/5523119/fortune-magazine-rejects-satirical-chris-ware-cover |archive-date=2010-04-26 }}</ref> Brady wrote in his blog that Ware said at the panel he "accepted the job because it would be like doing the [cover for the] 1929 issue of the magazine".<ref name="indiepulp.blogspot.com"/>