Art Spiegelman was standing in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, watching the towers burn and worrying about his daughter’s school. He processed what he saw the way he had always processed the unprocessable — in comics.
In the Shadow of No Towers is unlike any other book about that day. Large-format and visually overwhelming by design, it was originally serialized in European newspapers because American publishers were too nervous to touch it. Spiegelman — creator of Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir about the Holocaust — turns his 9/11 experience into something raw, political, funny, and genuinely unsettling. He sets his personal trauma panels alongside reproductions of early twentieth-century newspaper comic strips: Krazy Kat, Little Nemo, Happy Hooligan. The juxtaposition is not decorative. It’s the argument.
The book is a physical object with intention — oversized, almost architectural in construction, meant to evoke the broadsheet newspapers it mourns alongside the towers. There is nothing else quite like it.
This copy is in Very Good condition with some surface wear to the cover. Spine is tight, pages are clean.
Art Spiegelman was standing in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, watching the towers burn and worrying about his daughter’s school. He processed what he saw the way he had always processed the unprocessable — in comics.
In the Shadow of No Towers is unlike any other book about that day. Large-format and visually overwhelming by design, it was originally serialized in European newspapers because American publishers were too nervous to touch it. Spiegelman — creator of Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir about the Holocaust — turns his 9/11 experience into something raw, political, funny, and genuinely unsettling. He sets his personal trauma panels alongside reproductions of early twentieth-century newspaper comic strips: Krazy Kat, Little Nemo, Happy Hooligan. The juxtaposition is not decorative. It’s the argument.
The book is a physical object with intention — oversized, almost architectural in construction, meant to evoke the broadsheet newspapers it mourns alongside the towers. There is nothing else quite like it.
This copy is in Very Good condition with some surface wear to the cover. Spine is tight, pages are clean.
