I've created or co-created Katrina Came Calling, A Few Perfect Hours, The Vagabonds, Titans of Finance, Lionel's Lament, and Keyhole. I've also been a regular contributor to Harvey Pekar's American Splendor.
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My solo sequel to Keyhole (see below). Collaboration has always been part of my comix repertoire, and The Vagabonds #2: "Of Two Minds" continues that tradition. In the book, I illustrate stories by (among others) Harvey Pekar, Duplex Planet's David Greenberger, award-winning poet/memoirist Nick Flynn, literary cult figure Eileen Myles, artist Martha Rosler, The Beatles, and the New York downtown theater company The Civilians. A good collaboration is an ongoing conversation between writer and artist, each challenging the other, and the result truly is "Of Two Minds." The Vagabonds is published by Alternative Comics.
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note: NOT A COMIC OR GRAPHIC NOVEL!
In October 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, I served a three-week stint as a Red Cross volunteer in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. Taken from my online journal and illustrated with photographs, Katrina Came Calling is an intimate look at my reaction to the hurricane; signing up for Red Cross training; getting deployed; the conditions in the Gulf; working with the survivors; a visit to New Orleans; Port-a-Potties; my co-workers; issues of race, religion, and regional background; returning home; and much more. Being a public forum, my blog was read and commented on by people from all over the spectrum: not only by my friends, associates, and regular readers, but by other Red Crossers past and present, and by Biloxi-area survivors and former residents. Many of those comments (and my responses to them) are included in Katrina Came Calling, a unique marriage of print and the ongoing conversation of the Internet. Whitney Matheson of USA Today's "Pop Candy" calls Katrina Came Calling...
"a great little book. Most of us watched hours of news footage after Katrina, but I can't say I read or saw anything as personal as this—through Josh's eyes, we really get to know the people, places and destruction that surrounded him."
Katrina Came Calling is: limited-edtion, black-and-white, digest-sized, saddle-stitched, 102 pp. Send $7 ($5 plus $2 postage/handling) to: Josh Neufeld, 175 Eastern Parkway, #5C, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Or do the PayPal thing (see above).
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(and Other Stories From Southeast Asia and Central Europe)
This 128-page collection of my autobiographical travel comics — which features a brand-new 20-page story — takes the reader on an exotic globetrotting tour. In the book, I recount such offbeat adventures as a cave expedition in Thailand, our stint as extras in a Singaporean soap opera, and a train trip through war-torn Serbia. Booklist avows that A Few Perfect Hours “pioneers the travel book in comics,” and the Austin Chronicle calls it “a volume like the very best travel writing—like Paul Theroux, but with pictures!” The Prague Post heralds A Few Perfect Hours as “a few perfect pages. This graphic novel turns the travel bug into accessible art.” The book has also been featured in National Geographic Traveler, Utne magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Time.com, and a host of other print & online publications. A Few Perfect Hours is published through a generous grant from the Xeric Foundation, and is distributed by Alternative Comics.
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Written by R. Walker and illustrated by yours truly, Titans tells the tales of Wall Street's most well-known Icaruses. The stories are entirely based on press accounts, with practically no embellishment. Meet Ron Perelman, the man who made millions while presiding over the Mighty Marvel Comics train wreck. He's just one of the characters in this collection of true tales from the world of money and business. Over the past five years, Titans has crushed the benchmark S&P 500. You've never seen anything like it! Titans was published in 2001 by Alternative Comics.
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An eclectic two-man anthology I co-created with Dean Haspiel, Keyhole ran for six issues in 1996 – 1998. In Keyhole I began telling stories from the adventures of Josh and Sari. My other regular contributions included humorous one-page "travel tips," "Lionel's Lament," and "Titans of Finance." (The image on the left is from an abortive attempt to revive the book.)
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American Splendor is Harvey Pekar's unflinching and pessimistic account of his own life (he worked for more than 30 years at a Cleveland, Ohio, veterans' hospital). American Splendor has helped validate comics as an art form. Published continually since 1976, American Splendor is illustrated by some of comix' best talents (such as R. Crumb, Joe Sacco and Keyhole co-creator Dean Haspiel). Pekar briefly become a national celebrity on the basis of several appearances on David Letterman's Late Night, and he continues to write jazz criticism for Down Beat, among other journals. And he was the subject of a "major motion picture," which debuted to much-deserved critical acclaim in 2003.
I also sell my original art, both comics pages and illustrations. Click here to check out what's available.