Wow. Just find a copy of this book in your library - you don't even have to check it out, as it takes less than an hour to read. Beautiful.

A searing vision of the burning skeletal remains of the towers before they fell inspired this incredible account of the events of that dark day and its aftermath. A deeply emotional retelling of a lower Manhattan resident's experiences that day.

Only His High Holiness Art Shpeegleman could get away with something like this: he goes for years without publishing a whit of comics, drums up all sorts of hype and excitement, and then leaves us with what? Why, a board book! A fancily-printed pamphlet of newspaper pages, 38 cardstock pages total (including the frontispiece, introduction and everything), only 20 pages of which contain his actual original creations. Of course, those 20 pages are all newspaper-style double-page fold-out spreads,

Incomprehensibly neurotic and strange. Which I can understand, given the subject matter. But also, what did I just read? The art is beautiful, of course. Just as one would expect from Spiegelman. Here, he pushes the boundaries of graphic novels to create an oversized board book, with intricate frames of Spiegelman's spiral into darkness. Again, I can see where the neurosis is coming from. I can understand the fragmentation, to a degree. There is a thread of a narrative, as Spiegelman and Francoi...

Like other reviewers I wanted to like this, but ended up feeling as though it was a bit unfinished. Excellent bits, but I'm not sure they work as a coherent whole. Then again, I don't believe an artistic response to 9/11 is required to be coherent.

I have read several reviews on here that mock Art Spiegelman as "The King" or call his book pretentious or get angry over the fact that it's short or too large in size. But let's get one thing straight here: Art Spiegelman is, without a doubt, just as important as he thinks he is. And this book is further evidence of that.Other complaints have centered on his strong political beliefs: but, let's face it, he is right. That tragedy WAS highjacked by the right, and the American public was hoodwinke...

This book was too disjointed and chaotic to really enjoy. It's more a bunch of snippets bound together than it is a story.However, perhaps that's the point? NYC after Sept. 11th must have been chaotic, unsure, paranoid, surreal. There must have been no flow to one's reality or new expectations of what's going on. In that case, this is an exceptional book. It follows completely along these lines. The graphics are terrific. I especially liked the use of upside down strips: part of a strip is right...

Art Spiegelman uses his considerable talent to illustrate the fear and confusion of September 11, 2001 -- and of the months following, when he (like many other Americans) felt the Bush administration had hijacked the tragedy. The second half showcases the weird and political world of early full-page newspaper comics, his model for his own works in this book. An excellent, important book that moved me to tears.

I enjoy Art Spiegelman quite a bit. And I'm always happy to spend time with an artist's obsessions. The last third of this book is an essay on comics of the early newspaper days in America with a bunch of full-size plates. So that was an exciting little bonus.

This is a massive book. Large, almost A3 size planks of cardboard which, when you actually count them, only add up to 10 (albeit huge) pages of Spiegelman talking about his experience of 9/11. What happens is his daughter goes to a school in the WTC. Then the attacks happen. He and his wife run around screaming trying to find their kid and they do. They get to safety. The attacks frazzled Spiegelman and he ended up drawing this vastly overproduced book. Hardly inspirational or even insightful i...

I am sad rather disappointed that Art Spiegelman who like million other readers (of Maus) before me had almost started worshipping - wrote this. As it is - it is so difficult to find a work by this gentleman - and then when you finally get it - it turns out to be no more than a personal document - almost like a diary entry - wavering - intoxicated by paranoia - beautiful in pieces but tremendously shapeless and direction less as a whole. The book (if one might attempt to call giant size newspape...

Visual refinement in various styles. Including a surprise delight of gorgeous pages convincingly emulating the style of Little Nemo: 1905-1914.

Halfway through this book, Spiegelman, who lives in Manhattan and had to run through the streets on September 11 to get his daughter out of school, writes that the only way he could get the image of burning skyscrapers out of his head was to browse old comic strips: "That they were made with so much skill and verve but never intended to last past the day they appeared in the newspaper gave them poignancy; they were just right for an end of the world moment." And with that, he created 10 graphic

art spiegelman deserves his place in the graphic novel canon and can get away with all kinds of pretentiousness (like only giving presentations when he can smoke the entire way through and making a book so big it wouldn't fit in my backpack) bc he's just that good, ok.

Art Spiegelman & his family witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers at close range from their lower Manhattan neighborhood and his panic, rage, fear, mourning and his overall emotional state just after the 9/11 attacks can be perceived from the following extract taken from the introduction of the book: I tend to be easily unhinged. Minor mishaps–a clogged drain, running late for an appointment–send me into a sky-is-falling tizzy. It’s a trait that can leave one ill-equipped

So, yeah. I liked it, but I didn't like it.Don't get me wrong, I can understand what Spiegelman try to do, and the story about how he lived 11S, but I really prefer that part, and not when he talks about the fact itself, 'cause all of us know the story, but how it truly affect to the ones who lived it, and that 's the part that touch me and make me continue reading.

I loved it! I loved every details! That is the way how Art Spiegelmann can go on after 09/11. His art, his incredibly awesome way to self-explain are unbelievable. I did feel his paranoidal fear and misery! I am already reading "Maus" and I can imagine how good he is with this stuffs. He has amazing talent.

Cannot emphasize enough how interesting this work was. A huge book, the material is more like strong cardboard and the pages are huge 'planks'.In the first part Spiegelman recounts his emotions during the bombing of the WTC towers on 9/11 and what it all meant to him. We even get a little glimpse of Maus!The second part is Spiegelman's picks of comics from the past. To me they are a gateway to the past and a real reflection on today's world. I can't think of another comic artist to have done suc...

Looking for something else in the library, I saw this and thought: "hey, it's 9/11, what better way to mark the anniversary than by reading this book!" So I did, and it is every bit as good as I thought it would be, and more. Art Spiegelman is a genius, and part of his genius is to transform horrible trauma into brilliant art. Another reason to love him is his celebration of the great comic strip artists of the past, which is given magnificent space in the second part of this gorgeous oversize b...

Let's terrorize the terrorists!Yes, I did that. I started off a review about 9/11 with a Family Guy quote. You all saw it. Take my goodreaders badge away. Too late? When did the satire on 9/11 begin? Is it still acceptable? Let's ask the hipsters. okaay... Yes, I laughed at the Family Guy episode. GW refounding the confederacy and starting a 2nd Civil War that resulted in 17 million dead including Cesar Millan.. it puts a nice spin on the 'what happened if 9/11 was thwarted'idea. I guess I'm ju...