J.D. Crowe's Katrina Cartoons Collected in Book

By: E&P Staff Mobile (Ala.) Register editorial cartoonist J.D. Crowe and his newspaper have compiled a book of Crowe's Hurricane Katrina-related cartoons.

"2005 Hurricane Season" will soon be available at the Register and on the cartoonist's Web site (CroweToons.com). All profits from the collection will be donated to The Salvation Army's Neediest Families Campaign.

Crowe -- whose cartoons are syndicated by Artizans.com -- wrote on the book's back cover: "As the editorial cartoonist for the Mobile Register, I have been uniquely situated for some prime hunkering the past two hurricane seasons. I was hunkered like a groundhog for Katrina. And when I came out of my hole I saw anguish, devastation, and at least six more weeks of hurricane cartoons.

"Not a lot of knee-slappers here, especially in the aftermath of Katrina. These images reek of horror, sadness, and anger... . They are presented here as one artist's documentary of this historically tragic year in hopes that somebody, somehow, may get some use out of them."