A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
The cover to Pantheon's hardcover edition of A.D.
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| Author | Josh Neufeld |
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| Cover artist | Josh Neufeld |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Hurricane Katrina |
| Genre | Comics, New journalism |
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Smith Magazine (webcomic) Pantheon Graphic Novels (book) |
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Publication date
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2007–2008 (webcomic) 2009 (book) |
| Media type | Webcomic, hardcover, paperback |
| Pages | 208 |
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| OCLC | 277201932 |
| Preceded by | A Few Perfect Hours: and Other Stories from Southeast Asia & Central Europe |
| Followed by | The Influencing Machine |
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a non-fiction graphic novel by cartoonist Josh Neufeld. Originally published as a webcomic, A.D. tells the stories of a handful of real-life New Orleans residents and their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina. The graphic novel was a New York Times best-seller and was nominated for an Eisner Award and a Harvey Award in 2010. In addition, A.D. was selected for inclusion in The Best American Comics 2010.
In A.D., author Neufeld draws upon interviews with the actual people represented in the story; newspaper, magazine, and blog accounts of the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans; and his own experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in the weeks after the storm.
A.D. was serialized as a webcomic on SMITH Magazine in 2007–2008. The web version of A.D. utilizes the Internet in a variety of interesting ways to expand the scope of the story beyond the comic itself. Many pages and panels have links to outside sources such as audio and video clips, newspapers stories, photo essays, and the like. The A.D. website also features audio & video clips from the characters, a blogroll, a resource library, and a blog (in addition to a comments section for each chapter.) (The shorter web version of A.D. continues to live on the SMITH website.)
The hardcover edition of A.D. was released by Pantheon Graphic Novels on August 18, 2009, shortly before Hurricane Katrina's fourth anniversary. It went on to become a New York Times bestseller.A.D. came out in paperback, with a new cover, and a new afterword, in the summer of 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
A Dutch translation of A.D. was published in 2010, and a French translation was published in 2012.
The online version of the story encompasses a two-part prologue, 13 chapters, and an epilogue — 15 chapters in total. In the prologue, from a "God's eye" perspective, A.D. shows Hurricane Katrina as it builds from a tropical storm in the Bahamas and moves inexorably toward New Orleans. Katrina slams into the Gulf Coast. Winds and rain lash New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi. The levees burst and the city is flooded.
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