"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·尼尔森出生在美国新罕布什尔州，目前居住在美国明尼阿波里斯市。曾在新墨西哥大学获得绘画与插画专业的艺术学士学位。1999 年，尼尔森将自己手绘图画和漫画影音出来，装订成独立漫画，将它命名为《大问题》，并开始了他的艺术生涯。同一时期，他还创作了其它大量漫画作品，其中包括《狗与水》《不要去我不能去的地方》《波赛顿之怒》《结局》等。他的作品曾多次被收录在不同漫画选集中，也同时多次获得伊格纳兹奖。