Foreword : View of the New Yorker from Portland, Oregon / by Matt Groening
Introduction : How to read a New Yorker cartoon
The editor with a horn : Lee Lorenz
Sex, death, and frogs' legs : Sam Gross
The exurban everymom : Roz Chast
King of the scrapyard : George Booth
The beastly beatitudes of Edward Koren
The Kansas City curmudgeon: Charles Barsotti
The beatnik biker : Arnie Levin
The coupled cosmos of Victoria Roberts
Auteur d'Horreur : Gahan Wilson
The belated middle American : Jack Ziegler
Neckless : the short, sharp world of Zachary Kanin
The doctor of dots : Robert Mankoff.