Nine lives new orleans6/23/2023 ![]() that “Who’d have thought that after watching all that video we’d come upon a fresh visual way to experience Hurricane Katrina? Josh Neufeld’s drawings - and his tender, dead-honest dialogue - brought it all back in a way that made me feel it in my gut."Īnyway, it's my turn to repay the compliment. ![]() Fortunately, many have agreed, and in fact no less than Baum himself recently wrote about A.D. I really felt that comics was a groundbreaking way to explore the Katrina story in a way that the magazine stories, photographs, news footage, and even documentaries could not. In my career as a cartoonist I've come to treasure the many things that comics can do to bring a fullness to storytelling, that unique combination of words and pictures which bring a tale to life. Sound familiar? Yeah, on the surface, the premise is similar to A.D.'s, but Nine Lives is much more than a Katrina book. Published this past March (right around Mardi Gras), in alternating, rigidly chronological chunks, the book follows a diverse group of New Orleanians and their disparate paths through Hurricane Katrina. I recently finished reading Dan Baum's remarkable book, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans. ![]()
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