Rusty Brown

Rusty Brown
Rusty Brown Part I cover
Creator	Chris Ware
Date	September 2019
Main characters	Rusty Brown Chalky White Alice White Jordan Lint "Woody" Brown Joanne Cole
Page count	356 pages
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Original publication
Published in	Newcity Chicago Reader Acme Novelty Library
Date of publication	1997–2010
ISBN	978-0375424328

Rusty Brown is a comics series by American cartoonist Chris Ware. The work is an ongoing, multi-part narrative centered on a group of interconnected characters associated with a private school in Omaha, Nebraska, with storylines spanning from childhood into adulthood. Although named for its title character — a socially isolated boy with a fixation on collecting pop-cultural memorabilia — the series itself follows a wider cast, including Rusty's family, classmates, and teachers, across several decades. Ware has described the project as "an attempt to write a book without a protagonist." The series is a noted example of Ware's penchant for precise page layouts, muted color palettes, and typographic experimentation.