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Loading... A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (edition 2010)by Josh Neufeld
Work InformationA.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
  
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 A.D. avoids politics; its real power is in its images of waterlogged cityscapes and its characters' expressively rendered faces, streaming with sweat and contorted in anguish. In Crumb-like detail, Neufeld convincingly re-creates his protagonists' ordeals—and their halting recovery.  Neufeld's style is in no way haphazard. His drawings are reminiscent less of the superhero than of the Sunday comics page. That doesn't mean they are youthful or naive. With simple lines -- deft and evocative -- Neufeld communicates complex human emotions. Two- and three-color palettes render the passing days with sober integrity.
A.D.: New Orleans After the Delugeis a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,” a proud fixture of the French Quarter; Abbas and Darnell, two friends who face the storm from Abbas’s family-run market; Kwame, a pastor's son just entering his senior year of high school; and the young couple Leo and Michelle, who both grew up in the city. Each is forced to confront the same wrenching decision–whether to stay or to flee. As beautiful as it is poignant,A.D.presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it. No library descriptions found. |
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I started it without realizing that the author was writing from the experiences of others. I thought that the author was writing based from known events and created characters based in that reality. At the end of the read, the story was given a different context when I realized that what I'd just read was real life recollections via interviews that the author conducted with people.
I'm not sure how to feel about that. Especially when the interviews seemed to have been done within a few years after Katrina, not within the 2010s, then published in 2009. Four years after Katrina, not a decade and some change.
I am sure if I did some research I could answer this question, but as it stands, I wonder (and hope) that the author gave any and all money gain from this book to those that he interviewed or to non profits at the time of the publication. Areas impacted by Katrina are thankfully in much better conditions, or they have been abandoned due to not receiving any help in timely fashions, or they're neighborhoods of those unable to economically restart in those areas....
That being said...
The art and color direction of the book was fantastic. Using hard coloration in the beginning and contrast towards the end was a distinctive and memorably was to bring things from the sharp sameness of Katrina's impact to the 'we're moving on' contrast that the coloration did to the 'characters' with their environments. The color direction lost a lot of its impact due to the characters not being characters but real people, however, but perhaps to someone else, this impact does remain.
Because this book takes from interviews and stories of real people, props must be given to the parts of the book where the author's imagination and interpretation of the interviews come in clearly. I'm glad that they're there, since everyone, including those that were not there when it happened, were impacted by Katrina. That shows and I'm glad for it.
Okay, rambling over~ (