Oil and Water
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606994921 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Steve Duin, twice named the nation’s best local columnist by the Society of Professional Journalists, is the co-author of Comics: Between the Panels.Shannon Wheeler is the Eisner Award-winning creator of Too Much Coffee Man.Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, among other titles; he is the founder of 350, which in 2010 organized what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.”
--Gordon Flagg . From Booklist Four months after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a small group of Oregonians traveled to the Gulf Coast to assess the damage. Wheeler’s simple drawings convey the information but do little to enhance the emotional component of the story. As for the human element, vignettes portraying the residents and their experiences are more compelling than the (apparently fictionalized) sequences featuring the clueless outsiders. Details of the devastation are conveyed mostly through interview
"A rare view of the largest oil spill in U.S. History!" according to Mike Rosen. Wow! What a unique approach to capturing the complexities of the short- and long-term impacts to the people, environment and economy of this monumental environmental disaster. Engaging in words and imagery. And an important piece of literature that should help keep the spotlight on this issue even now as the impacts continue to unfold in insidious and not so obvious ways.
Between the tarred sands of Grand Isle and the fouled waters of the Louisiana bayou, they come to find out that Gulf Coast residents are economically dependent upon the very industry that is wreaking havoc on their environment. history. When ten Oregonians travel to the Gulf Coast in August 2010 to plumb the devastation wrought by the Deepwater Horizon spill, they discover that “Oil and Water” is just the first of the insoluble contradictions. The readers’ perspective on what hope and what mission remains along a ravaged coastline, and one awash in both seafood and oil, will be changed as irrevocably as that of these ten Oregonians. In the shadow of the greatest ecological disaster of our time, they are forced to reassess their roles as witness, critic and environmental steward. In this 120-page graphic novel written by Steve Duin, a columnist for The Oregonian, and illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler readers will tour the shark-pocked beach at Grand Isle with the local head of Homeland Security; step aboard the crabbin