[cross-posted from Josh Neufeld's blog...]

Crescent City Comics has just opened a second location, moving its flagship store to 3135 Calhoun Street, near Tulane University in New Orleans. (There’s a nice little article about the new store here, which features a time-lapse video of their logo being painted in giant scale on their ceiling.) That address, 3135 Calhoun, is the center of an A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge vortex. Let me explain…
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[cross-posted from Josh Neufeld's blog]

I’m often asked by A.D. readers about the story’s real-life subjects: Denise, Leo & Michelle, Hamid & Mansell, Kwame/Kevin, and The Doctor . The answer is I’ve been in touch with all of them, to varying degrees, over the years, and for the most part they’re doing well.

So, with Hurricane Katrina’s tenth anniversary coming up (officially tomorrow), I thought folks might be interested in a little update. Over the last month I’ve reconnected with Leo, Hamid, Kwame/Kevin, and Dr. Lutz, asking them about how they’re doing, the state of New Orleans, Katrina’s legacy, and their feelings about the 10th anniversary. (Denise, sadly, chose not to be interviewed for this update.) I’ve structured the piece as a sort of conversation among the characters. As you might expect, A.D.’s characters harbor a multitude of feelings around these issues, some in alignment and some in conflict. I wouldn’t have it any other way!

The new comics piece, “Where are they now? Revisiting 4 Katrina survivors 10 years later,” is up at Fusion’s “Graphic Culture” section, and I hope you find it food for thought. http://fusion.net/story/190071/where-are-they-now-revisiting-4-hurricane-katrina-survivors-10-years-later/

P.S. I also want to thank the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for their assistance on this piece.

Defend New Orleans!

Poor beseiged NBC News anchor Brian Williams! First he “mis-remembered” whether his helicopter was shot down over Iraq. Now he’s in trouble for wild claims he made in the wake of Katrina. Here’s A.D.’s very own Doctor Brobson Lutz responding to one such claim on Salon.com:

[cross-posted from Josh Neufeld's blog]

In commemoration of Hurricane Sandy’s one-year anniversary, Medium is debuting “SuperStorm Stories: A Red Hook Family” (part one), a piece I reported and drew about a Brooklyn family’s experiences during the storm and its aftermath. This segment specifically deals with the family’s love of books (and music), and the horror of seeing some of their most treasured memories destroyed by the “gasoline- and poop-filled water from the Hudson River.” Jim, the dad, speaks memorably about “black-bagging a favorite book” and its resemblance to “a mangled body.”
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I just stumbled upon a long essay about A.D. in the new book Comics and the U.S. South, edited by Brannon Costello and Qiana J. Whitted (University Press of Mississippi, 2012). The essay, “A Re-Vision of the Record: The Demands of Reading Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge,” is by Anthony Dyer Hoefer, a professor at George Mason University. And a PDF of the essay is available as a free download right here.
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