Day 8
Damian Duffy & Deborah Grison, writers, John Jennings, artist
online web comic

SYNOPSIS
With Hurricane Katrina on the verge of washing out New Orleans, one man struggles to survive as long as possible until help arrives.

ABOUT DAMIAN DUFFY (from his ComicSpace page)
I’m Damian Duffy, editor-in-chief and head writer of Eye Trauma Comix.

Eye Trauma is a free webcomics anthology that updates every Monday. Our comics tend towards socio-political commentary, and we do work with comics in academia. (Check out our Brain Trauma section for more about that.)

But we got science fiction, horror, auto-biographical drama, fantasy, and comedy all wrapped up into one happy site.

I’m currently co-curating two art shows, Other Heroes: African American creators and characters in comics and Out of Sequence: Underrepresented voices in American comics, and working on a graphic novel, The Hole: Consumer Culture, coming Summer 2007 from Front Forty Press.

ABOUT JOHN JENNINGS (from the Front Forty Press website)
John Jennings is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jennings frequently lectures on visual literacy, popular culture, and the visual communication found in Hip Hop culture. Jennings is also the co-author of the graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture and a co-founder of Eye Trauma, a web based collective of sequential artists, activists, and curators who seek to expand the public’s perception of the comics medium.

ABOUT DEBORAH GRISON (from the Katrina: After the Storm website)
Deborah Grison has built her reputation as a captivating spoken word artist since she hit the scene in the late ’90s, opening for Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, the late Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, and R&B singer Erykah Badu, among others. In 1999, she wrote and presented the poem, How Sweet He Is, at the Walter Payton Memorial Service at Chicago’s Soldier Field in front of 17,000 plus people. In 2001, Grison’s work was published in The Attic: Words From the Top. Born in Chicago, Grison holds degrees from Jackson State University, Spertus College, Sarah Lawrence College, and is pursuing her PhD in urban and regional planning from Jackson State while based in New York.

LINKS
Damian Duffy’s ComicSpace page
Deborah Grison’s MySpace page
Eye Trauma
Front Forty Press
Katrina: After the Storm