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...doing cover art for The New Yorker rather than doing new comix. Then came September 11, 2001, which, as it did for much of the rest of the world, changed everything. "Disaster is my muse," writes Spiegelman, who began a series of strips on the subject, In the Shadow of No Towers, soon thereafter. Unfortunately, their only American appearance was in a hard-to-find Jewish-American newspaper. Now, at last, Pantheon has collected the ten large-format strips into a fascinating, if all too short book that combines Spiegelman's talents at memoir with his early, ground-breaking experiments...
...series of strips took a single melodramatic panel of a 50's romance comic and extended the lines past the border, recontextualizing the scene in various, absurd speculations. Comprised of ten broadsheet-size strips by Spiegelman with an addendum of selected turn of the century newspaper strips, In the Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously recount his September 11 memories - he lives in downtown New York on the outskirts of Ground Zero - with considerations of the catastrophe's geo-political...
...east - just in time for the Beijing Games of 2008. For the Russians, many of whom found themselves co-stars or also-rans on stages their nation once dominated, Athens 2004 felt like a poignant salute to a fading power. And for the Americans, these Olympics rarely escaped the shadow of Iraq. The much-feared terrorist attack thankfully didn't come, but American spectators couldn't stop wringing their hands over proper comportment in a world grown hostile toward the lone superpower. (Were they cheering too much? Too little? Should they leave the God Bless The USA fanny pack...
...were known for their struggles rather than their successes. Petria Thomas, 28, had spent a long stretch of her career wrestling with a body that kept letting her down; if she wasn't recovering from another shoulder reconstruction she was seen as the dependable No. 2, lingering in the shadow of a now-retired rival known as Madame Butterfly. Jodie Henry, 20, was not known outside swimming circles. She, too, had experienced tough times in a short career. Her nerves could reduce the sprinting dynamo to a heaving wreck. But by the end of the eight-day Olympic swimming meet...
...joins the new city. I crossed first, with Thorne close behind me, and just as I made it to the opposite curb, the sniper fired again. I found a pillar to hide behind but Thorne was caught in the middle of the street and he curled up in the shadow of a piece of concrete. The bullets made cracking sounds when they hit the wall. After a pause in the firing a group of Mahdi fighters in a nearby alley told us to come closer and take cover with them. From that street corner, it was a five minute walk...