I am a storyteller and my medium is comics.
My
latest book is the New York Times bestseller A.D.: New
Orleans After the Deluge, a nonfiction graphic novel about seven
real-life New Orleanians and their encounters with Hurricane Katrina. Released
in hardcover last year, A.D. came out in
paperback — cover pictured at left! — in August 2010.
At the August 2009 New York release party for A.D., we raised over $1,200 for Common Ground Relief, a grassroots organization based in New Orleans' Ninth Ward.
A.D. has been covered by the New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Salon.com, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, the Toronto Star, BoingBoing, Wired.com, "Pop Candy," and many others. The L.A. Times calls A.D. "a work . . . of literature, of high art, and of reverence for nature and humanity."
A.D. has been nominated for an Eiser Award for Best Graphic Album—Reprint, and for a Harvey Award for Best Previously Published Graphic Album! It will be excerpted in the 2010 edition of Best American Comics, edited by Neil Gaiman. In addition, the book was listed on a number of 2009 holiday gift guides, including the New York Times. Vanity Fair magazine declared A.D. to be one of its five "better-than-a-sweater" gift suggestions. And MTV's "Splash Page" blog called A.D. the best nonfiction comic of 2009.