Art Spiegelman Discusses In the Shadow of No Towers

25 years after 9/11, BPL Presents welcomes the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, with a series of comix broadsides that captures the events of 9/11 and the calculated hijacking of that event by the Bush government.

With Maus, Spiegelman resurrected the graphic novel for a new generation of readers. His campaign to bring comix back into the cultural mainstream is now over 20 years old. With this reissue of In the Shadow of No Towers—a reformatted edition amounting to a new work—Spiegelman reminds us that politics, also, is the proper subject matter for comix.

This is unlike any other book about 9/11, one that tries to capture the event in its myriad ramifications -- and the anguish and indignation, helplessness and outrage at how something unimaginable and unexplainable has been exploited as an excuse for preemptive war and unilateral action.

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Art Spiegelman is cofounder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries here and abroad. He is the author of Maus, for which he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly.