A.D.: New Orleans After The Deluge
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Three years later, it’s still surreal. Tomorrow is going to be a hard day.
Thanks Josh for putting this out into the world. Thank you to everyone whose story is told here. I’ll be keeping a watchful eye on Gustav this weekend, and if it does keep New Orleans as its target we can only hope that Katrina taught us something about helping people evacuate before it’s too late.
Melissa, Kudos for being the very first poster! Seriously, thanks so much for your thoughtful response(s) to “A.D.”, both here and your blog. Wish I could’ve made your reading, but I’m sure we’ll meet up in the future. My thoughts will be with you and all the other Katrina survivors tomorrow; and of course I hope Gustav dissipates—or at least turns away from NOLA.
A stunning, sobering, respectful piece of profound work. I am proud of you, Josh, and everybody involved—for crystalizing and sharing the true horror of such a catastrophic event into something I could begin to behold—even if it’s a piece of history that should never have played out the way it did. May we all learn to handle stuff like this with better intelligence, heart, and grace.
Thanks, Dino. Your own creativity and dedication to craft are my inspiration, ol’ buddy.
Wow, just wow. I can’t believe there was a “The End.”
Be sure to put an announcement up when the graphic novel is available to buy.
Thanks for taking us on this long long journey with these folks. For all of us who could only watch in pain and rage and horror from the sidelines, you made it real— powerfully, stylishly, respectfully. Their journey is still nowhere near over— there is still no peace or justice in New Orleans, and high water has been replaced by Blackwater.
I look forward to the return of the real New Orleans and also to your published page.
A remarkable and humane piece of work. One of those things that makes me proud to be in Comics. Thank you.
This was amazing, Josh. Amazing and heartbreaking, and reminds me of all the anger and frustration and helplessness I felt watching Katrina happen.
Can’t wait to buy the graphic novel.
Thanks. What a good story. This helps the many of us who did not suffer with you.
great, great work. impressed as always. by any chance, that school you drew in Ohio — that wouldn’t be Oberlin College by any chance, would it?
Good catch there, Tristan!
— Josh Neufeld OC’89
Dear Josh,
I spoke with Barbara who now lives in Covington, north of Lake Ponchartrain. She can’t believe she’s packing and preparing for another hurricane on the 3rd anniversary. She laughed a little through crying, saying, “At least I don’t have much to pack after losing everything in Bay St. Louis.”
Thank you so much for spending so much time and work and art into A.D.
See you soon,
Anne
I think that A.D. is in fact a superhero comic. The 6 people (plus the thousands of others) who survived, left and returned to a destroyed home have fought more powerful demons than any DC or Marvel masked avenger.
It is impossible for any of us to know how we will act in, or react to a catastrophe like Katrina. I hope that the people of A.D. know more about themselves than they did before; and I hope that whatever part of Denise that was washed away by the flood has been at least partly replaced by the Denise that was able to emerge alive and strong.
Hopefully, A.D. will become a book that is burned onto the literary consciousness much like MAUS is. True life accounts like this have a unique ability to teach, and maybe the best thing that can out of any disaster is the “teachable moment.” Everyone who was unaffected (physically) by Katrina should take the stories to heart and make sure that we are all prepared for future disasters.
What an amazing accomplishment, Josh! From the time and effort you put into going to the area to help (and your excellent reporting of that experience in ‘Katrina Came Calling’), to your sensitive and brilliant portrayal of these stories in the series, it’s been an incredible journey. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Wow. This is really wonderful. Beautiful artwork (of course), and well crafted storytelling beginning to end!
I also loved the audio snippet from Denise. She’s a powerful speaker and the opportunity A.D. has provided for readers to hear, respond to and interact with Denise is not only important but extraordinary!
The epilogue contains some truly devastating material, Josh. It brings back the horrible memories of how New Orleans suffered and how individuals had their lives ripped apart. I look forward to your graphic novel that the prestigious Pantheon Books will put out in 2009.
panels 6, 13, 14 - the emotions on the faces, those pages….to echo the others, pretty masterful.
Am curious about how you are going to translate the web comic to the graphic novel (and then, fingers crossed, maybe a film!)
Wow! I would like to see the print version too…
Great work Josh, a different perspective than what we saw on TV. You did a good job of humanizing the people presented to us as looters and losers. Could have been any one of us.
All the best,
Chris
Thank you for this deeply moving work. It makes it hard for me to breathe when I think of the cruelty with which Americans so often treat Americans. We should never forget how fragile polite society is. A couple of missed meals, a few days without power, no place to buy gas — and it all goes out the fuckin’ window. Katrina was just a storm. What happened and continues to happen in New Orleans and other Gulf communities is a human made holocaust. We are all to blame.
Incredibly well done and touching!
Can’t wait for the printed version! Nothing I’ve seen or read so far made me feel that close to what people must have lived and felt during and after Katrina. Congratulation on a very great job.
Josh,
This work is quite an epic. And still we are left with an unfinished/open ending. Will you revisit your friends in a literary way again?
I look forward to the book.
Thank-you again for one of the best graphic works out here and a great, American view.
Kate
Thank ypu for doing this I grew up about eight blocks from Jesuit and so many of the places from ym childhood were wiped out of existence for good. I live in Georgia now and no one seems to understand. My parents were in Metairie when Katrina cane to call. They were in their early eighties then and Dad’s Alzheimer’s was early=mid. range then. It took all four of us kids ten days to extract them from their home by means of deception and coercion. Got them to Lafayette and then Atlanta. I have too much to say about Katrina and her aftermath to go on. Thank you, Janis Zeringue Campbell
p.s. Zeringue is a good old cajun name and you might have fun looking it up
Hey all, Just want everyone to know I’ve been reading all your comments, and that they mean a lot. I’m hard at work on the book version of A.D., and will let you know more as it goes along.