Naked City: A Graphic Novel

"[Flood is] 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

“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

"Strong black-and-white artwork, bent to strange purpose"—Frank Miller

"Drooker's old Poe hallucinations of beauteous deathly reality transcend political hang-up and fix our present American dreams."—Allen Ginsberg

“Elegiac, spiritual, and political . . . written in a language that anyone can understand, exploring themes of universal interest, Drooker continues Masereel's profoundly democratic artwork.”—Time

“With Blood Song, Drooker has not only exhibited his growing skill as a scratchboard artist but has contributed another important work in the genre of wordless comics. Blood Song will shake up readers with a strong social statement in a fine-crafted tale.”—The Comics Journal

[On Blood Song:]

“Drooker's experience as a graphic illustrator readily lends itself to a project that requires both the stylistic range to hold a reader's interest over 300 pages and the sense of harmony to blend the extremes of that range. He variously evokes woodcuts, cave paintings, propaganda posters, cartoon art, and the movement photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, but shapes each image into a seamless, almost symphonic whole.
Like any suitably rich novel, Blood Song centers on a welter of powerful mental images. Drooker simply captures them and sets them plainly on paper in place of the words he might use to describe them.”—The Onion