 He moved to Seattle after graduation, where he found work for the alternative comics publisher Fantagraphics, and eventually became art director of the alternative weekly "The Stranger".During this period, Lutes began writing and self-publishing his own comic work with Penny Dreadful Press.In 1993 Lutes began serializing a strip for "The Stranger", which was collected in 1996 in the critically acclaimed graphic novel "Jar of Fools".