<![CDATA[A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge]]>

false <![CDATA[A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255728765m/6398040.jpg 6398040 1 Book Description A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurricane Katrina in the true stories of six New Orleanians who survived the storm. A.D. follows each of the six from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath. Here is Denise, a sixth-generation New Orleanian who will experience the chaos of the Superdome; the Doctor, whose unscathed French Quarter home becomes a refuge for those not so lucky; Abbas and his friend Mansell, who face the storm from the roof of Abbas’s family-run market; Kwame, a pastor’s son whose young life will remain wildly unsettled well into the future; and Leo, a comic-book fan, and his girlfriend, Michelle, who will lose everything but each other. We watch as they make the wrenching decision between staying and evacuating. And we see them coping not only with the outcome of their own decisions but also with those made by politicians, police, and others like themselves--decisions that drastically affect their lives, but over which they have no control. Overwhelming demand has propelled A.D. from its widely-read early Internet installments to this complete hardcover edition. Scheduled for publication on the fourth anniversary of the hurricane, it shines an uncanny light on the devastating truths and human triumphs of New Orleans after the deluge. Josh Neufeld on the Making of A.D. <img align="right" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/randoEMS/Josh_Neufeld_sm.jpg"/> This set of images illustrates my process in creating imagery for A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. This panel shows Hurricane Katrina's winds whipping down Canal Street. I started out with a small thumbnail sketch, just something to suggest the main force of the action and the prominent "props" or objects. <center> Click on thumbnails for larger images <table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="250"> <center> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/randoEMS/1nola_pencils_sm.jpg"></td> <td width="250"><center> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/randoEMS/nola_ink_sm.jpg"> </td> <td width="250"><center> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/randoEMS/nola_color_sm.jpg"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="250"><center>The next stage was a full penciled drawing, with all relevant details included. I usually draw this stage using a non-repro blue pencil, and use "X's" to indicate large areas of black (like the street and the shadows of the buildings). </td> <td width="250"><center>From pencils I proceed to inks, where I make the final decisions about which lines will go in the completed drawing, fill in all the blacks, and otherwise prepare the drawing for coloring. I vary the width of my inked line to indicate which objects are in the foreground and which recede to the background. </td> <td width="250"><center>While working on the final, colored version of this panel, I realized that the artwork called for lines representing the driving rain. I actually drew those on a separate layer and added them to the scan of the original artwork Finally,using PhotoShop, I implemented the blue-green color scheme of this section of the book. Voila! A completed panel from A.D.--Josh Neufeld</td> </tr> </table> </center> 6586728 book 18 8 2009 A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge total:124|5:38|4:50|3:31|2:5|1:0| 124 493 248 42 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:39:04 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:39:14 -0800 2009
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Summary: Follows the lives of seven individuals before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. Each of these people come from different walks of life giving very different experiences as they share the same d...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 14:08:10 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 14:26:37 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 08:56:48 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:12:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 26 20:45:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 20:54:38 -0700 2009
powerful would be the understatement of the year... neufield captured the days leadi...more...]]> 4 1 false true Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 11:32:33 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 13:50:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 19:56:51 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 22:34:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:27:36 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:51:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 13:09:41 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:15:15 -0700 2009 A.D. follows five characters through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The characters cover a wide range of backgrounds and stories. Some characters evacuate the city while others stay. One ends up in the Convention Center, while two others avoid the steadily rising waters by seeking higher gro...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:43:10 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:48:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 18:52:31 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 19:13:13 -0700 2009 Grapes of Wrath and pick this up.

Just before I finished reading this on the train, I listened to an interview with Rebecca Solnit, author of Paradise in Hell (I may have just botched the title). There was much to chew on between her run-down of how folks can make t...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 06 05:26:14 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 06:11:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:35:08 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 20:35:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:49:23 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 19:55:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 04:15:48 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 04:38:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 05:29:50 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 05:33:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 08:27:09 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 08:33:14 -0700 2009 web in part due to the links that anchored the stories in the real world. But I love books so am very happy to have gotten a signed copy (missed the reading, oh well) from the Brookline Booksmith. <A.D.> is made up of seven people's true stories from Hurricane Katrina...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 06:39:20 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 08:35:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:08:49 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:11:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6398040