Twenty-five 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 this reissue of In the Shadow of No Towers, Art Spiegelman reminds us that politics, also, is the proper subject matter for comix. Unlike any other book about 9/11, this work tries to capture the anguish, indignation, helplessness, and outrage at how something unimaginable has been exploited for preemptive war and unilateral action.
Brooklyn Public Library, Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Cultural Center Auditorium – 10 Grand Army Plz, Brooklyn NY 11238 – accessible entrance & restroom