Flood! is a powerful graphic novel by the socially and politically conscious illustrator Eric Drooker, frequent cover artist for the New Yorker and contributor to World War III Illustrated. This modern novel is written in the ancient language of pictures, and its expressionist graphics hold a film noir edge. Long out of print and now at its tenth anniversary, Flood! conveys all the joys and sadness that intermingle in our large cities ... and gives us a look at a possible future. This edition features a new introduction by historian and poet Luc Sante, a new cover by Drooker, and a complete redesign.

"[FLOOD!] is a complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City, where primal, natural urges are supressed 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...

"Since images are usually open to broader interpretation than prose, each drawing in the sequence must work not only as a self-centered composition but also as a kind of heiroglyphic picture-writing. The page acts as a curtain to be raised, each page offering up new visual surprises... 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)