For Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were both personal and intensely political. In In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new comic book after the groundbreaking Maus, he masterfully and poignantly records the events and consequences of that tragic day.

Spiegelman and his family witnessed the attacks in their Lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school just below the towers a few days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anxiety quickly shifted to anger at the U.S. government, which brazenly exploited the events for its own predetermined agenda.

He reacted in the way he knows best. In an oversized two-page format that echoes the scale of early comic newspapers (which offered him solace after the attacks), he narrates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and texts that convey—with his unique artistry and characteristic provocative, angry, and witty tone—the incomprehensible magnitude of the event, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes imposed in the name of national security after September 11 that are beginning to undermine the foundations of American democracy.

48 pages, Dimensions: 25.5x25.5cm