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Ground Zero
I saw dazed pigeons standing motionless on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan for days after the explosions of 9/11. It’s been two years, and most New Yorkers seem to be back to their daily routines… but, under the surface, we’re all still a bunch of dazed pigeons…
Art Spiegelman
Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Art Spiegelman and his wife are walking through the streets of New York when the first plane hits one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. It is 8:14 am. Less than two hours later, at 10:03 a.m., a second aircraft crashed into the second tower. Soon, the designer goes to pick up his daughter from school, the establishment being near the Twin Towers. Two other aircraft were involved. One targets the Pentagon and the other crashes into the countryside in Shakville, Pennsylvania, with the crew and passengers successfully routing the terrorists… The city sinks into chaos. The two iconic skyscrapers collapsed, covering part of lower Manhattan with thick, debris-laden smoke.
As the days go by and the origin of the suicide bombings is revealed, Art Spiegelman decides to take his pencils to draw on the theme of this immense tragedy and its repercussions on the country as well as on its inhabitants. His work, embodied and committed, does not find a favorable echo in the United States. All the newspapers to which he proposes In the Shadow of No Towers refuse. The author of Maus therefore sent it to Europe where it was more favourably received. Published in the German weekly Die Zeit and in the Courrier International in France, the comic strip can also be read in the pages of The Independent in England.
In America, only The Forward, a small circulation weekly, grants him the favors of a publication. A situation that encouraged Spiegelman to self-publish his work. This one is composed of ten extremely rich plates, combining various techniques, between drawing and photography, two-color and four-color. In 2004, the book is finally recognized for its true value by being included in the selection of the 100 must-haves of the year by the New York Times Book Review…
In the Shadow of No Towers was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 100 must-reads of 2004.
9/11 Memorial Pools
The term “ground zero” is used to describe the place where an explosion took place. However, since September 11, 2001, it is mostly associated with the attacks that caused the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
Following the disaster, the city is gradually licking its wounds. The rubble is being removed and the future is being considered. On April 27, 2006, work began on the future One World Trade Center, the tower that will be built near the site of the Twin Towers, at an altitude of 546.2 meters, higher than any other building in New York. On the site of the attack, the city inaugurates a memorial on September 11, 2011. A monument consisting of two large fountains the size of the Twin Towers around which are the names of the victims. Also evoking the attack of 1993, the National Museum of September 11, meanwhile, opens its doors on May 15, 2014. A site near which is Liberty Park where The Sphere, the sculpture by Fritz Koening that once stood at the foot of the towers and was found in the rubble, was deposited…
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New York: The Big City by Will Eisner
A little over 100 years ago, Will Eisner, one of the masters of the 9th art, was born. Publishers offer a complete version of New York: The Big City, a comic book gem.
THE WILL EISNER SERIES
Will Eisner is one of the major authors of the comic book world. Born in 1917 (and died in 2005), he built a sumptuous work graphically and narratively. He is especially the father of the graphic novel (A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories in 1978). Before that, he created The Spirit in 1940, the masked vigilante, a huge American series.
After Luca in 1974, the following year he was awarded the Grand Prix of the city of Angoulême by his peers, the first American author and successor to André Franquin.
In addition to New York: The Big City, Delcourt Editions will publish other collections of the master: the trilogy of Contract with God, Life, in pictures & the trilogy Les clés de la bande dessinée, an excellent way for his fans to find a large part of his work and for neophytes to discover it. After Osamu Tezuka(Ayako, Adorufu ni Tsugu), again, a rich idea.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.