- Paperback: 182 pages
- Publisher: Dark Horse; 3rd edition (15 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1593076762
- ISBN-13: 978-1593076764
- Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 123,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I would probably have given this five stars because the graphic novel itself is really interesting - storytelling without using text to anchor and relay the meaning of the images (except for a few signs, graffiti marks, and background detail) is fascinating - but when I first opened it the cover instantly fell off and I had to glue it back on myself! Not what you expect when you have paid a reasonable price for a mint condition copy. That aside, the theme of visual language and the idea of how words and meaning became separated after the Fall of Man is explored both through the form of the novel and its subject matter. Although I can't say I have immediately understood the work in full it reveals more detail and interest with each re-read and covers similar subject matter to Paul Auster's 'City of Glass' (adapted into a graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli). The more profound aspects of this work open it out to all sorts of convoluted and academic interpretations. The hieroglyphics on the subway walls must surely be references to the Rosetta Stone (the decoding of sacred symbols), just as the cave paintings point towards an era prior to verbal language, and both of these contrast with the degraded symbols or empty language used in the advertising, graffiti, and street signs that alienate the protagonist as he navigates the modern city. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I suspect that to get the very best out of this graphic novel you need to be open to at least pondering some of the profundities of life, as a more literal approach might lead to frustration or disappointment with the story, but it is the ambiguities of this work - the apparent gaps of meaning or areas open to interpretation - that make it so challenging and praiseworthy as a graphic novel.
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Just for the record. This is the graphic novel that was used by Faith No More in his album "King for a day...fool for a lifetime". I just loved those pictures and I wondered where they came from. This is a fantastic book, recommended not just for FNM fans, but also for underground comic book lovers.
It remind me a very twisted Gary Panther, author of some Frank Zappa covers (Sleep dirt, Studio Tan, etc)
Just buy it!!!
It remind me a very twisted Gary Panther, author of some Frank Zappa covers (Sleep dirt, Studio Tan, etc)
Just buy it!!!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Gorgeous, spellbinding, gritty, emotional.
15 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
This book is one of the most precious things I own. It is beautiful beyond words. A story, in painstaking, gorgeous, graphic images, of an artist's metamorphisis and life in the city. You can watch Drooker's work progress as each scratchboard image becomes more refined, more gorgeous. Stunning.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
fantastic
23 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
this book really touches me. so deep, empathetic, real. no words, everything expressed thru those poetic woodcuts. i bought 5 books and give them as presents to my best friends.......
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
An amazing graphic novel!
30 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This -- and its sister story found in Eric Drooker's BLOOD SONG -- are truly wonderful novels, amazing story, amazing artistic illustration -- visual poetry! I cannot give any graphic novel higher praise than FLOOD! Try to get the volume that has the interview with Drooker at the end, if you can (added insights into the art and artist) -- but definitely experience FLOOD in all its glory!
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