Want to know about "Williams Street" culture?

We're jerks.

We (The 70-30 Productions crew) have an article coming out in a local magazine here in Atlanta about the new cartoon we're making. The article's author, Justin, hung out with us while we moved into our new office. We got to know him pretty good, he's a good guy.

Well for the article they asked us to create a graphic for a "full page spread." I thought that was normally taken care of by the Magazine's art department. But since it's for our article, about our show, we were excited to work on it.

In the cartoon, the main character sends out a postcard to promote his plan for world domination/destruction. A "direct mailer" as they call it in the business.

We decided it would be a great idea to have the promotional postcard as our spread. This is what it looks like (complete with intentional grammatical errors):

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Anyway for various reasons, it was rejected. Maybe they didn't get it, or thought the grammatical errors were real errors. Or maybe the Chairman Mao joke bothered them... whatever. In it's place they suggested having the main character's "Head floating over a colored background." Hmm. sounds lame.

Here is what my boss had me send them. Heh, I love my job...
also did I mention that we're jerks?