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MacNelly, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and creator of the SHOE comic strip, discusses balancing daily political cartoons at the Chicago Tribune with writing and drawing SHOE. He explains his philosophy of gleeful journalistic rule-breaking ("I slander people, I libel them, I misquote them"), his self-described conservative politics, and the challenge of finding ugly politicians to caricature. He names Walt Kelly (POGO) as his primary artistic hero, praises BLOOM COUNTY, and mentions a forthcoming collected edition of his political cartoons called DIRECTIONS.

Reader mail includes a letter from previous interviewee Darrell McNeil commenting on the Jeff MacNelly piece in issue #46, and a comedic letter from Gold Medal Productions responding to the Kelly Nichols interview.