In the Shadow of No Towers

Ranked #36 in 9/11

Catastrophic, world-altering events like the September 11 attacks on the United States place the millions of us who experience them on the "fault line where world history and personal history collide." Most of us, however, cannot document that intersection with the force, compression, and poignancy expressed in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers. As in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, cartoonist Spiegelman presents a highly personalized, political, and confessional diary of his experience of September 11 and its aftermath. In 10 large-scale pages of original,... more

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