"Dogs and Water "chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only precarious encounters with animals and armed men. These interactions are rife with instinct, the drive for survival, and human ethics concerning the killed and injured. He finds acceptance with a pack of dogs, though their nature is wild and their potential threat is as unsettling as the sudden presence of a massive pipeline on the horizon. In a dreamlike state, the endless land becomes a vast body of water where his boat is destroyed and his body floats in a subconscious space. On land, the road disappears and only blind circumstance remains. All is uncertain and all can be lost, but he continues on regardless.

安德斯·尼爾森齣生在美國新罕布什爾州，目前居住在美國明尼阿波裏斯市。曾在新墨西哥大學獲得繪畫與插畫專業的藝術學士學位。1999 年，尼爾森將自己手繪圖畫和漫畫影音齣來，裝訂成獨立漫畫，將它命名為《大問題》，並開始瞭他的藝術生涯。同一時期，他還創作瞭其它大量漫畫作品，其中包括《狗與水》《不要去我不能去的地方》《波賽頓之怒》《結局》等。他的作品曾多次被收錄在不同漫畫選集中，也同時多次獲得伊格納茲奬。