It’s all downhill from here. Back-to-back exclusive guest strips from Jeffery Brown and James Kochalka, two of the industry’s most-respected artists, right out of the gate? Unless we can score those outtakes from Fantagraphics’ upcoming Peanuts: The Psychedelic Years, it looks like we’re in for a lot of disappointment from here on out.

In the meantime, please enjoy James Kochalka’s “How to Play Guitar,” or what we’ve lovingly come to refer to as, “The Devil and James Kochalka or The Downside of Doing Things on Spec.” It’s an unreleased track from Spin Magazine, from the only cartoonist to show up on Rolling Stone’s The Best 100 Songs of 2006 list. As always, Spin’s loss is our gain–our scary, scary gain.