(Example: A picture of a boy sitting on a tire in pitch blackness sports the caption "I believe this is my earliest memory of riding in the car when my family took our annual vacation.")

Larson explains the creative process he goes through in making cartoons, showing the original doodles in his sketchbook alongside the final published versions.

", while the Far Side cartoon got the Dennis caption—"Lucky thing I learned to make peanut butter sandwiches or we woulda starved to death by now.").

In a separate section called "Subtle Things," he discusses the techniques he brings to the cartooning table.

Here Larson shows his cartoons that have provoked controversy, even outrage, and he reprints some of the indignant letters of protest.

The next section shows a handful of cartoons that his editors rejected (or, in a few cases, that he never even bothered submitting), usually because they were considered in poor taste.

"I contemplated making this last section a collection of what I consider the lousiest cartoons I've ever drawn, but space was limited."