Horror of simply being alive / Ivan Brunetti -- Portrait of the artist as a young %@#*! -- Winta wundaland / R. and Aline Crumb -- "Hey, Soph, whazzup?" / Sophie Crumb -- The canary-colored caravan of death / Alison Bechdel -- Just a bad seed and Once, we ran / C. Tyler -- Ernie Pook's comeek (excerpt) / Lynda Barry -- Skate date, Waiting, and John and I go to the movies / Lauren Weinstein -- Untitled diary strips / Vanessa Davis -- California journal / Gabrielle Bell -- Six things I like about my girlfriend / Ivan Brunetti -- These things, these things / Jeffrey Brown -- FUC 1997 : we share a happy secret, but beware, because the modern world emerges / Ron Regé Jr. -- Country roads--Brighton / John Porcellino -- Needles and pins / Jonathan Bennett -- Glenn in bed / Kevin Huizenga -- Sambo / David Heatley -- Lubavitch, Ukraine, 1876 / Sammy Harkham -- Untitled (The list) / Miriam Katin -- Shoehorn technique / Ben Katchor -- Shortcomings (excerpt) / Adrian Tomine -- Cut thru and Laundry room / David Heatley -- Fritz after dark / Gilbert Hernandez -- No midgets in Midgetvile / Kim Deitch -- Dinner and a walk / Anders Nilsen -- Black hole (excerpt) / Charles Burns -- Untitled (Discrete operations vehicle--burning gall) / Gary Panter -- Blond Atchen and the bumble boys / C.F. -- My bumbling, corpulent mass / Ivan Brunetti -- Meet the dropouts / Tim Hensley -- Kramer's ergot / Paper Rad -- Walnut Creek / David Heatley -- Won't be licked! The great '37 flood in Louisville / Dan Zettwoch.