Inside Issue #2:

Frontispiece: Easter Island by Bill Lee • Publisher’s Letter by Michael Gerber • Talk Talk Talk by Liana Finck • The Woman Who Forgot by MK Brown • Gallimaufry by Mallory Ortberg, John Howell Harris, Jack Silbert, David Misch, Matthew Grzecki, Jack Handey, Paul Lander, Megan Koester, Mike Shear, Jay Ruttenberg, Matthew Powers, Dennis Perrin, Mark Bazer, The Covert Comic, Al Jean, Eric Branscum, Katie Schwartz, Ryan Nyburg, River Clegg, Joey Green, Geoffrey Golden and Sean Kelly • The Great Pretenders by Julia Wertz • Musicians You Should Know by Jay Ruttenberg & Mike Reddy • Jury Selection by Simon Rich • Eleven Short Stories by Jack Handey • 8PM – Curb Your Enthusiasm by Megan Koester • Have A Nice Day, Forever by Doug Kirby & Ken Smith • If Stanley Tucci Was Your Boyfriend by Mallory Ortberg • Welcome to Infinity World by John Howell Harris • Unbroken by Dave Hanson • What I Will Say To The Three People At My Book Reading by Merrill Markoe • The Ding-Dong Hoodlum Priest by Brian McConnachie • The Right Drink for Any Occasion by Michael Thornton • Leash-less in Seattle by Shary Flenniken • Just So You Know by Bill Franzen • The Mad Mascot of Sohoby Ron Barrett • The End by Nell Scovell • Odd Birds by Rick Meyerowitz and Sean Kelly • #sicsemperpapyrus by Todd Hanson • I Love My Gun by Seymour Chwast • The Dracula Letters by Jack Handey and Brian McConnachie • The Elements of Strunk by Jamie Brew • Interview: Sam Lipsyte by Mike Sacks • What Went Wrong by Steve Young • I Conquered Kilimanjaro (…Nearly!) by Mike Reiss • Anapest by David Chelsea • With Bells On by Dave Hill • Making My Amends by Merrill Markoe • Zayde’s First Blow Job by Katie Schwartz • There Are No Free Elephant Rides in Life by Brian McConnachie • I Can Teach Anyone To Play Piano! by Michael Ian Black • Whether Report by Peter Kuper • Public Hair by Julia Wertz and Laura Park • The Day Dad Came to Breakfast by Howard Cruse • John Wilcock: New York Years — Jean Shepherd by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall • Towel Off! by Nate Bramble • The Diary of Merrill Markoe by Merrill Markoe • What’s An Aging Hipster to Do? by Mimi Pond • Crossword #1: “Comic Duo-logues” by Matthew Matera and Alan Goldberg

With cartoons & illustrations by Ron Barrett, Charles Barsotti, Kate Beaton, Louisa Bertman, Chris Bonno, M.K. Brown, Roz Chast, David Chelsea, Seymour Chwast, John Cuneo, Liza Donnelly, Xeth Feinberg, Liana Finck, Shary Flenniken, Rick Geary, David Geiser, Pia Guerra, Sam Henderson, Brandon Hicks, Farley Katz, Ken Krimstein, Peter Kuper, Rick Meyerowitz, P.S. Mueller, Joe Oesterle, David Owen, Jonathan Plotkin, Mike Reddy, Marc Rosenthal, Cris Shapan, Mark Simonson, Michael Sloan, Mick Stevens, Len Stokes, B.K. Taylor, Tom Toro, D. Watson, Julia Wertz, Shannon Wheeler, Derek Yaniger, and Jack Ziegler.