New York city born Eric Drooker (b. 1958) is a magazine illustrator, graphic novelist, animator and painter.

In 1994, he won the American Book Award for his first graphic novel, Flood! A Novel in Pictures (cover artwork, bottom left in the montage above). His second, Blood Song is soon to be released as a feature film.

He has designed dozens of covers for the New Yorker magazine. He collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on both Illuminated Poems and Howl: A Graphic Novel.

Find his graphic novels, books of postcards and other books he’s illustrated on Amazon.

In the film below, Eric Drooker is interviewed about his friendship with Allen Ginsberg and designing the animation for Howl starring James Franco.

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