Selections from the works of more than seventy-five avant-garde comic artists come together in a definitive anthology that serves as a broad historical overview of the medium and a roundup of some of today's best North American comic artists--including Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, R. Crumb, Joe Sacco, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, and many others.

A compilation of the first three issues of the comic book series Schizo follows the adventures of a paranoid, deluded young man as he deals with self-loathing, depression, misanthropy, and the descent into insanity.

Scooby-Doo and his friends get to the bottom of a variety of eerie mysteries, from a poltergeist at a mental hospital to an appearance by the Wild Hunt of the ancient Druids to a giant ghostly shoe.

An examination of the most famous stories, tales, and histories of the world that are provably wrong provides a look at why certain myths are created and spread, the reasons they persist, and the actual truths that long have been obscured by misinformation. (view table of contents)