Tyler B's review: In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote once of the horrors his father had seen during World War II (MAUS, MAUS II). Now he turns his art to his own experiance, and the horror he witnessed, while living in New York City, on September 11, 2001.The book begins as a simple telling of another day in the life of Art Spiegelman, but then turns for the worse with the attack on the towers, and the rest of his morning dreading for his family. He continues by speaking his concerns for his art and his responsibility to the American Public. Eventually he finds a peacful resignation to his dread of our current society, politics, marketing, and media.As he tells it in his forward, "i still believe the world is ending, but i concede that it seems to be ending more slowly than i once thought."Though the political agenda behind this graphic novel may be banal, or uninteresting for some teens, others, the ones with their fingers on the pulse of our current state of anxiety, will find this book as an insightful and sometimes jarring friend.
Rating: 4Q-Better than most; 3P-Some teen appeal