The first publication of this Chris Ware piece, with each panel presented as a double-page spread, preceded by several pages of his original art with blue line pencil under the ink lines, and followed by several pages of thumbnail layouts. An animation-style running sequence in the corner of the text pages closes the book.

Sigaretten Edizioni Grafiche 18 ("Sigaretten Graphic Editions")

From the back cover:

Comics are not a genre--as they are sometimes still misunderstood--but as a complex image-language borne of solitary, not team, effort through which any story, no matter how muted, can be created on paper and appear to happen right before the reader's very eyes. Chris Ware has decided to introduce with these words "Rusty Brown theme song", his most recent project, which will be presented here, for the first time, as a book.

208 pages / Silkscreened paperback cover

Chris Ware was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1967, attended the University of Texas at Austin in the late 1980s, and has been publishing comic strips regularly ever since. He has published in prestigious publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker , and This American Life. His debut graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan : The Smartest Guy Alive" won him the American Book Award in 2000, the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, and the Alpha Art Award in 2003.