Companion to America's preeminent festival of independent cartoonists and publishers, which is held annually to benefit the non-profit Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. This anthology brings together more than sixty of the finest talents of the international alternative comics movement in a single 352 page volume. Also contains spotlights on Art and Activism and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund [CBLDF], the Japanese Manga Anthology Garo and 36 Years of Japanese Alternative Comics, the International Comic Arts Festival [ICAF], German Lanuguage Comics, L'Association and the French Comics Collective Movement as well as interviews with Dylan Horrocks, Scott McCloud, Jakob Klemencic and Aleksandar Zograf.