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In the Shadow of No Towers Art Spiegelman
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Here Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Art Speigelman's In the Shadow of No Towers are read in terms of 'autographics': the distinctive technology and aesthetics of life narrative that emerges in the comics. The ten broadsheet pages of In the Shadow of No Towers capture the individual responses of a self-confessedly “fragile” personality. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman presents his very personal observation of and response to the destruction of the World Trade Center. In the Shadow of No Towers “That was all washed away by the rains and the police as the world hustled forward into our “New Normal.” -Art Spiegelman. There was a lot of reading for this weeks topic -- Autobiographix: Comics and History -- and the set texts were pretty dense: "Barefoot Gen" by Keiji Nakazawa and "Maus" and "In the Shadow of No Towers" by Art Spiegelman. This is in essence an autobiographical work. This isn't as flippant a remark as it sounds. Attention, on est dans le fin du fin de la BD. Is part two of my discussion with my friend Trevor Dodge (you can find part 1 here), where we begin discussing Spiegelman's In the Shadow of no Towers, 9/11, and a bit of Don DeLillo. In no sense of the word a novel, Spiegelman's graphic memoir describes the trauma of witnessing the Twin Towers' destruction. It takes its title from Art Spiegelman's comic book of the same name. I've just finished Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers" and I wanted to share my thoughts on it here. Mohammed: In the Shadow of No Towers is my fourth symphony and it's scored for large wind ensemble. So Art Spiegelman used IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS as a sort of sequential art diary of his reactions to 9/11 and the World Trade Center attacks. In the Shadow of No Towers was always going to be a somewhat disappointing comic book. In the shadow of no towers (A l'ombre des tours mortes) - Art Spiegelman - 2004. To commemorate, I'd like to discuss the best piece of 9/11 literature I've encountered in those eight years, a nonfiction graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers. Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers (New York: Pantheon, 2004). For many Americans, 9-11 was an event that defied comprehension.