I knew it wouldn’t be long before others were singing the praises of Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. I was right. And, such nice things are being said!
Take a look here:
“I particularly liked the combination of economy and strength in Neufeld’s work. His two-page spreads are very nice. And his use of varied colors for different chapters helps keep the reader involved.”
—Harvey Pekar
“A.D.’s stunning panels retell the harrowing experience of what it was like to live through the disaster.”
—Rolling Stone
“Raw and painful, down to the detailed depictions of ruined homes and the frenzied dialogue among friends.”
—Newsweek
“Referring to A.D.: as a ‘comic book’ is a bit like calling Schindler’s List a ‘talkie.’”
—Los Angeles Times
”[A.D.:]’s stirring images are sure to linger in memory, perhaps even longer than hours of news footage already have.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Accessible, informative and beautifully drawn”
—USA Today’s “PopCandy”
“A.D.: is a sterling example of comics with a social consciousness, and is exactly the kind of thing we need to keep the human dimension of this unimaginable disaster and its ongoing aftermath in the public eye.”
—Wired.com
“Who’d have thought that after watching all that video we’d come upon a fresh visual way to experience Hurricane Katrina? Josh Neufeld’s drawings—and his tender, dead-honest dialogue—brought it all back in a way that made me feel it in my gut.”
—Dan Baum, author of Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
More praise and goodies after the jump…
