Chapter 1: Music

Van Dyke Parks

Ray Davies

Can the Beach Boys Be Saved?

Doo-Wop

Chapter 2: New Jersey

Art School Jazz

The Backyard

Summer Canvases

Rapid Applications

My Wild Weekend

Substitute

School for Cats

Chapter 3: TheLiterary Scene

"Dr. Lechter, could you pass the peas to Miss Bennet?"

The Lost Shakespeare Play

Sins and Sensibility

Four Fables

Stage Fright

Chapter 4: The Comics

The Four-Color Dahlia

A Tale of Two Artists

Mushroom Turtles

Ditko!

The Funnies

Holiday Card, 1983

Chapter 5: Illustrating

Chapter 6: New York

Monkey Pylon's Frying Circuits

Untitled

New Yawk, New Yawk

Annie Flynn

New York's Crooks and Nannies

China Town Toodle-oo

Roughhouse in the Big Apple

Oil & Vinegar

Chapter 7: Holidays

Someone Else's Children - Memorial Day

Fingerprints - Fathers Day

Mother's Day

They Made a Difference - Memorial Day

Frankenstein - Halloween

"Cold Feet" - The Christmas Season

More on "The Christmas Shoes"

Chapter 8: Life in America

Creativity

Cheerios and Belly Buttons

Tashunca-uitco

Air is a Liquid

Alien Invasion

Chapter 9: Travel

Paris

Italy, Part 1

Italy, Part 2

Italy, Part 3

Italy, Part 4

End Note