In the Shadow of No Towers by SPIEGELMAN ART

The point is, anyone writing about Spiegelman has to contend with Spiegelman's own works since they are very autobiographical to the point of No Fourth Wall, right from his beginnings in Underground Comics and Alternative Comics, as well as his extended long narratives, Maus and the more recent In the Shadow of No Towers. The Spiegelmans arrived first in Stockholm, Sweden, where Art was born in 1948, and later arrived in America where they settled in Rego Park, New York.

Art Spiegelman is the son of Vladek and Anya Spiegelman, Polish Jewish immigrants to America who had survived the Holocaust which claimed the lives of several members of their family including Rysio, their first son who would have been Art's elder brother by 10 years had he lived.

If it wasn't entirely clear to readers before, unlikely as it may be, well it bears repeating that it's all true. Not only is he the author and artist of the book, but he appears as a character in the book, mousehead and all. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit-the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.I thought he was supposed to have a mouse head?Īrt Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, February 15, 1948) is a name that is highly familiar to readers of Maus. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of Septemwere both highly personal and intensely political.

In the Shadow of No Towers by SPIEGELMAN ART