After the Deluge

Sometime after the horror of 9/11 had turned into something like reflection, I began to wonder how this catastrophic event would eventually be represented and interpreted in literature, film and art. I've since read some wonderful short stories in The New Yorker, and 9/11 has edged it's way into film, but often only as a set piece and certainly not with any lasting resonance that I'm aware of.

In the aftermath of 9/11, and in the face of another catastrophe, this time Hurricane Katrina, artist and graphic novelist Josh Neufeld decided to leave New York for Mississippi to volunteer with the Red Cross. He has turned some of the true stories of the survivors he met there into the unlikely form of what many consider to be comic books.

In a review for online magazine, smithmag.net, David Eggers writes:
"One of the best-ever examples of comics reportage, and one of the clearest portraits of post-Katrina New Orleans yet published. An essential addition to the ongoing conversation about what Katrina means, and what New Orleans means."

I haven't read it yet, but it's exactly the kind of thing I hoped to see.