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"New Orleans writer illustrates financial foibles in comic form"
New Orleans City Business. December 23, 2002
Rob Walker, a New Orleans-based financial writer for Slate.com,
has come up with a clever way to make the absurd world of finance more
digestible
to mainstream audiences. Along with New York illustrator Josh Neufeld, Walker
spins harrowing tales of corporate America through his comic book Titans
of Finance.
In it, Walker artfully details the tumultuous true-life tales of some of America's most famous and infamous CEOs, including CrossWorlds Software founder Katrina Garnett, "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and Ronald Perleman, whose cataclysmic takeover of Marvel Comics Inc. is told with all the exhilarating detail of any Superman comic. To order copies of Titans of Finance, which cost $3.50, visit www.indyworld.com.
For
the past two years, Walker has also kept a diary of local oddities, titled "Letter
from New Orleans," on his Web site, www.robwalker.net. In it, he pens
his observations of how to live life in New Orleans.