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 fifty of the finest talents of the international alternative comics movement in a single 372 page volume. Also contains interviews with, Christian "Blutch" Hincker, Carla Speed McNeil, Jeff Smith, Chris Staros, Kurt Wolfgang, James Kochalka, Jordan Crane, and Dean Haspiel as well as spotlights on Bernhard Willem Holtrop and Thomas Ott.