Flood! A Novel In Pictures - Softcover

Drooker, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593076762 ISBN 13: 9781593076764

Publisher: Dark Horse, 2007

Synopsis

An American Book Award winner and an Editor's Choice of the New York Times, Flood! is the powerful first graphic novel by Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for the New Yorker. Flood! is a modern novel written in the ancient language of pictures, with an expressionist, film noir edge. This "definitive edition" of Flood! is a unique record of our country's turbulent past--and corporate present --and a must-read for students of graphic storytelling. This third edition also features a new cover by Drooker and a complete re-design. Flood! A Novel in Pictures, was followed by Drooker's acclaimed book, Blood Song: A Silent Ballad.

About this title

About the Author

ERIC DROOKER is a painter and graphic novelist, born and raised on Manhattan Island. He's the award-winning author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He designed the animation for the recent film, Howl, a movie based on the epic poem by Allen Ginsberg, who collaborated with Drooker on the book Illuminated Poems. His paintings appear on covers of The New Yorker, and hang in numerous collections. He regularly draws from the figure, and is working on a series of nude paintings for an upcoming book.

From the Back Cover

In 2006, the Library of Congress acquired original art for Flood!,

including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings.

The complete Flood! Archive is housed in the Prints & Photos

Division of the Library of Congress.

From the Inside Flap

"A complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City, where primal, natural urges are suppressed in the lonely isolation of crowds. It's a picture of a soulless civilization headed toward the apocalypse. It's a poetic and lyrical novel--told virtually without words . . . Mr. Drooker has discovered the magic of pulling light and life out of an inky sea of darkness." --Art Spiegelman, The New York Times Book Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593076762
• ISBN 13: 9781593076764
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192