Chuku, a new employee at the the department of Creative Lights, Opticals, and Unusual Designs in the Sky (a.k.a. C.L.O.U.D.S), is given the job of designing the skies of New York City. At first, the dirty air and tall buildings, and the fact that no one in the city seems to look at the sky, frustrates Chuku, but eventually, the job of creating beautiful skies and sunsets for the people of New York becomes enjoyable. The illustrations were created using gouache, translucent watercolor, colored pencil, and airbrush.

Former rodeo rider and Texan Jack McGriff cruises from coast to coast in his Cadillac, calling up ex-wives and girlfriends in his car phone and hunting down antiques for people who want to buy them. He describes himself as a "scout", hooking up customers with those who want to sell. McGriff winds up in Washington, D. C., trying to sell to a man named Boog Miller, and plan a cowboy-boot exhibit featuring the boots that Billy the Kid wore when Pat Garrett gunned him down.