The pair skip school one day to avoid a nasty teacher and wander onto the roof.

This series was a precursor to the final book, with some pages omitted and others rendered as only black-and-white drawings.

The eventual hardcover edition of the completed work was released in September 2005 by Fantagraphics comics.

One wrote in the New Yorker, "Crane’s drawings are clean, yet full of nuance; his writing is playful and sharp.

"[2] Another wrote in Publishers Weekly that "the book is a joy to look at - Crane's loose, gliding lines burst with character, and his compositional gifts make every panel worth contemplating on its own.