Cover Story: Bruce McCall's 'New Money': The New Yorker Bruce McCall, the artist behind the cover of this week's Money Issue, is also the author of the forthcoming "This Land Was Made for You and Me (But Mostly Me) " - a satirical tale about "billionaires in the wild" co-authored by the "Late Show" "s David Letterman. "It originally started from Letterman's idea that the West is being ruined by all these nouveau riche people buying huge property, rerouting rivers, cutting down forests, building huge mansions with teak fences, wanting to build monuments for their own egos," McCall said. I thought, that's a good idea, but it's too local. ... Why not make it about the world? Letterman's a very sophisticated guy, and he and I had exactly the same sensibility when it came to humor, which made it was easy and fun. There was no list of priorities, no Sierra Club concern about the environment - just whatever seemed like the funniest thing, whatever I could do as a fantasist to make ridiculous images like the top of Everest being put on top of a department building in New York City, or an Amazon jungle with a French restaurant on top of the trees. About this week's cover, McCall added: "Money is so ubiquitous - it's everything - and admittedly, the tendency these days is all about attacking the one per cent. I thought that was a bit of a trap, because money's much more than that. I have no reasonable explanation for it, but I just saw an image of a men's club with all these fusty old guys and this young new billionaire dot-com genius as the last one. That seemed to say something about money more obliquely, about where the power of money is these days with the young. See below for a few of pages from McCall and Letterman's forthcoming book.