For full review, see dbqp: visualizing poetics.

Like everything Chris Ware does, this books is meticulously illustrated and heart-breakingly plotted. Its a little too short to get to the level of depth of "Jimmy", but its a gem nonetheless.

Mr. Chris Ware is a genius and should have won the Fiction Pulitzer in Fiction for Jimmy C TSBOE. Writes and draws emotively.

love for its hints at my beloved "building"

Rusty Brown is a great character. Chris Ware knows how to do pitch perfect pathetic characters.

I think this is the start of the RUSTY BROWN serial, and so far it's a great one. The two story lines happening at the same time works great in the format he's chosen. blah!

I’ve always had an appreciation for Chris Ware’s artwork. He has an innate skill for toying with the framing conventions of graphic novels/comics and precise linework that I have yet to see rivalled, but it took Rusty Brown to really win me over. It is probably because this story (which is still ongoing as part of the Acme Novelty Library) is the first of Ware's I've read in which I felt the connection between his technical brilliance and the human truth of his characters and stories. When that connection happens the feeling is profound and it reassures me that the graphic novel is indeed a valid artform. Rusty Brown is, to me, where Chris Ware strikes a wonderful balance between narrative trickery, quiet desperation, and desperate humor.

This book made me cry, his drawings are so beautiful and unique. I would love to see Chris write a novel.

For once it's hard to describe why I like this so much but I do. The way the narrative just splits and comes back together again, to such human scenarios, is just really enjoyable.

I love Chris Ware. I love everything he does, but this is not my favorite of his works. I devoured this book and was done in about an hour, but it's the kind of thing I'll go back and look at again once or twice before I take it back to the library. The details always intrigue me. I love Rusty's "command center" and the imagination in this book and I like the cameo of Ware himself. Nice touch.

Chris Ware is a genius!!!

Delightfully depressing.