AN UNRETIRED DRAWING

April 9th, 2009 Posted in BREADLINE ART

Here’s yet another disturbingly prescient old illustration from Ross MacDonald. “I drew this back in 1995 for one of the financial magazines; I’ve long forgotten which one,” he says. “I suspect I was taking my usual approach to illustrating dry business articles: visual hyperbole. For an article about the faint possibility of minor fluctuations in the value of retirement plans, why not really lay it on thick and show a guy’s 401(k) reduced to an empty shell? Hilarious! Of course, I have only to look at my recent retirement account statement to see how right I was.”

401k-951

Illustration by Ross MacDonald ©1995

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