In the Shadow of No Towers
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...
show more
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 of 'the hijacking on 9.11 and the subsequent hijacking of those events' by America.
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670915415 (0670915416)
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
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.
Log in with Facebook 
