Features 300 of Scott Bateman's unique comic creations. Mashing up pop culture with cultural neuroses in a single-panel one-two punch, his self-involved characters address their aphoristic confessions directly to the reader. Time and again, Bateman delivers understated wit with maxiumum impact. Painfully personal and furiously funny, Bateman's "Sketchbook" reveals all the shameful secrets one nation can handle.