A l'ombre des tours mortes
ISBN:
9782203370067 (2203370068)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Casterman
Pages no: 40
Edition language: French
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Adult,
Art,
Politics,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix
Read for the 2015 reading challenge.
When I encounter Art Spiegelman with his award-winning creation of Maus, my world was utterly change in context of comic book reading and capturing the substance of history through comics. In regards to 9/11, I was researching books that capture this period in time and found that Art Spiegelman wrot...
Somewhere on the shelf where I store all the family photo albums, the high school year books, a stuffing of letters and other ephemera, is a copy of the New Yorker published on September 24, 2001. I find it whenever I'm digging around looking for some artifact of my family's life, and never know wha...
A chilling look at the author's experiences living in New York City during and in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, the broadsides in this book were originally published overseas because Spiegelman couldn't find a publisher in the US who was willing to print his fiery opinions.
Like other reviewers I wanted to like this, but ended up feeling as though it was a bit unfinished. Excellent bits, but I'm not sure they work as a coherent whole. Then again, I don't believe an artistic response to 9/11 is required to be coherent.
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