Theory and history: What comics are, and what they aren't ; Auteurs, the history of art comics, and how to look at ugly drawings ; What's good about bad comics, and what's bad about good comics ; Superheroes and superreaders ; Pictures, words and the space between them
Reviews and commentary: David B. : the battle against the real world ; Chester Brown : the outsider ; Steve Ditko : a is a ; Will Eisner and Frank Miller : the raconteurs ; Gilbert Hernandez : spiraling into the system ; Jaime Hernandez : mad love ; Craig Thompson and James Kochalka : craft vs. cuteness;- Hope Larson : the cartography of joy ; Carla Speed McNeil : shape-changing demons, birth-yurts and robot secretaries ; Alan Moore : the house of the magus ; Grant Morrison : the invisible king ; Dave Sim : aardvark politick ; The dark mirrors of Jim Starlin's Warlock ; Tomb of Dracula : the cheap, strong stuff ; Kevin Huizenga : visions from the enchanted gas station ; Charles Burns and Art Spiegelman : draw yourself raw ; Why does Chris Ware hate fun? ; Alison Bechdel : reframing memory
Afterword: The rough wave and the smooth wave.
