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A candid snapshot of the feast-or-famine freelance painter's life. Larkin, running on 48 hours without sleep, describes juggling Marvel paperback covers, Bantam Doc Savage paintings, and TV Guide illustrations while coping with the loss of nine major clients in a single year after his best year ever. Discusses his gouache painting technique, his accidental entry into comics through Neal Adams at DC, and how Stan Lee gave him his first full-color cover assignment. Despite the instability, he remains committed to freelancing: "I'd never have a steady job again, unless I had to. But I won't. Never. Ever."