Description

In October 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, New York-area cartoonist and author Josh Neufeld served a three-week stint as a Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. Taken from his online journal and illustrated with photographs, Katrina Came Calling is an intimate account of Neufeld’s experiences; the conditions in the Gulf; the survivors and his co-workers; a New Orleans visit; issues of race, religion, and regional background; returning home; and much more.

Being a public forum, Neufeld’s blog was read and commented on by people from all over the spectrum: not only by his friends, associates, and regular readers, but by other Red Crossers, and by Biloxi-area survivors and evacuees. Many of those comments (and Neufeld’s responses to them) are included in Katrina Came Calling —a unique marriage of print and the ongoing conversation of the Internet.

Katrina Came Calling is not a comic book; it is a limited-edition, black-and-white, digest-sized, saddle-stitched, 102 pp. booklet.

Praise for Katrina Came Calling:

“A great little book. Most of us watched hours of news footage after Katrina, but I can’t say I read or saw anything as personal as this—through Josh’s eyes, we really get to know the people, places, and destruction that surrounded him.”

— Whitney Matheson, USA Today’s “Pop Candy”

[Katrina Came Calling] is … a very interesting perspective on a national disaster, most unlike many that you’d read…. [I]t’s a fascinating read all round, with Neufeld being a very sympathetic and astute writer.

— Chris, Indy Comics & Books