Last year, when writer Vidyun Sabhaney and US-based scholar Jeremy Stoll met at the UnBox Festival in Delhi, their conversation began by watching the dogs nearby, discussing how and ended with them swearing to do a book on it.

DOGS! An Anthology, features particularly well-drawn and versatile stories by five Indian and five US writers, including Delhi-based Sabhaney herself, Stoll, who completed his PhD on Indian comics in 2012, illustrator Priya Kuriyan and Orijit Sen, of the Pao Collective.