The Magazine of Comics News and Criticism. In this issue: How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most Stupendous Comic Book in the World - The Pirate and the Mouse author Bob Levin tracks down the El Dorado of comics, a lost collection of unpublished strips by 190 of the world's most important cartoonists, including Will Eisner, Vaughn Bode, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Arnold Roth, Bill Griffith, Ralph Steadman, Don Martin, Gahan Wilson, Jeff Jones, Guido Crepax -- even William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe and Frank Zappa! The comics were assembled in the 1970's by Michel Choquette (creator with Neal Adams of National Lampoon's Son o' God comics) for a book called Someday Funnies, which never saw print. Levin and Choquette reveal for the first time the whole catastrophic story of what might have been the comics anthology of the century. Plus: an Interview with Josh Cotter; Myron Waldman's Eve in the comics section; and Noah Van Sciver conducts a cartoon interview with John Porcellino. Also: reviews, columns, letters and news.

News
Eric Millikin and staff, Journal Datebook (p. 18)
Interviews
Sean T. Collins, "The Josh Cotter Interview" (p. 82)
Reviews
"Kramers Ergot 7" (p. 100)
"American Flagg!" Vol. 1 (p. 103)
"Diana Prince: Wonder Woman Vols. 1-4" (p. 106)
Kent Worcester, "Jackie Ormes" (p. 110)
Noah Berlatsky, "A People's History of American Empire" (p. 112)
Ng Suat Tong, "The Times of Botchan" (p. 115)
Tom Hart, "Master of Reality: 33 ⅓", "Apollo's Song", "Caricature" (p. 122)
Mini-reviews of "Mammoth Book of Best New Manga", "Manhwa 100", "Sayonara", "Zetsubou-sensei", "Nemi Vol. 2", "I Saw You", "Stray Toasters and Prince Valiant: Far from Camelot" (p. 128)
Essays
Bob Levin, "How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most Stupendous Comic Book In the World" (p. 30)
Mark Newgarden, "Myron Waldman and Eve" (p. 134)
Noah Berlatsky, "Gender and Comics in Chicago" (p. 175)
Kevin Greenlee, "Circling Autism" (p. 178)
Columns
R.C. Harvey, Comicopia: "The Banana Republic in the Mirror" (p. 182)
Matthias Wivel, Continental Drift: "Hicksville 2009" (p. 187)
Donald Phelps, The Observer: "Cosmic Vagrant: The Prophetic Romances of M.P. Shiel" (p. 196)
Kenneth Smith, Human Natures: "World, Soul, Psychetypes, Psychoecology-A New Logic of the Psyche" (p. 198)
Coming Comics (p. 205)
Illustrations
Noah Van Sciver, "A Cartoon Interview with John Porcellino" (p. 14)
Myron Waldman's Eve