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The rat who rides at night.

Matt Furie's wordless 2012 book The Night Riders. A frog, a dirt bike, and the little guy riding behind him. Furie drew him from his own pet rat. Everyone still calls him a mouse.

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Wat, the rat from The Night Riders

The lore

Before the frog, there was the rat.

Furie published The Night Riders with McMullens, McSweeney's children's imprint, in 2012. Hand-drawn, foil-stamped, and completely wordless — the whole story told in pictures. The cover folds out into a double-sided poster.

He's a rat, drawn from life.

Furie has said the frog's little buddy is a rat, that many readers will assume he's a mouse, that rats are the smarter animal, and that the character came from his own pet rat. Paraphrased — Furie interview, The Beat, 2012

Why he works. Every good meme is a small injustice. He's been in the canon since 2012 and still gets called a mouse.

Why Solana. The book happens in one night, at speed, in the dark. It fits.

The story · nine frames

One night, start to sunrise.

The beats of the book, in order — as laid out in the 50 Watts page walkthrough. Scenes below are original artwork, not pages from the book. See the real pages ↗

01

Lights out, then up again

A frog and a rat wake for a midnight snack and a bike ride. Or they're dreaming it.

02

The mushroom garage

They wheel the bike out from under the mushrooms and set off.

03

A dragon, and he's friendly

Wingless, chicken-legged, and about as threatening as a dog.

04

Down into the cave

The dragon takes them underground to meet a friend.

05

The gamer bat in jean shorts

He lives in the cave. He plays video games. He is glad of the company.

06

The empty compound

A deserted seaside place, full of fountains, nobody home.

07

Straight into the ocean

They decide the sea looks good and get in.

08

Purple dolphins, one bad crab

A crab turns scary. The dolphins get them out of it.

09

And they watch the sun rise

The book ends in daylight. So does the night ride.

The ride

Dusk to sunrise.

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Official sources

Read the real thing.

Matt Furie on The Night Riders — the interview where he describes the ratcomicsbeat.com ↗ The Night Riders — pages and artwork, with commentary50watts.com ↗ Buy the book from McSweeney'sstore.mcsweeneys.net ↗