In the Shadow of No Towers
 

In the Shadow of No Towers

by Art Spiegelman

On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe in her school at the foot of the burning towers he returned home, to meditate on the trauma, and to work on a comic strip. Subversive, iconic, and burningly articulate, In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman's extraordinary account... (read more)

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Aimeesue
  • Rated 4 stars

gorgeous. The book consists of ten large scale pages done by Speigelman in the aftermath of 9/11, and reproductions of turn of the century comics from the New york papers (Life With Father, Little Nemo in Slumberland, and Happy hooligan, among others.)

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adamreck1
  • Rated 1 stars

Scattershot, uneven, maybe unfinished? I wonder for Art's sanity reading this.

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  • Rated 3.5 stars
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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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