Spiegelman's got a new funnybook about 9/11
Art Spiegelman, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning funnybook "Maus" has written a comic about 9/11, called In the Shadow of No Towers, and he's done an NYT interview about it:You've never considered yourself to be a political cartoonist. Yet "In the Shadow of No Towers" is a very political work. What changed?Reg Req'd Link, Use "scriptkiddie/scriptkiddie" (Thanks, Dylan!)This character — me — got so shaken up. I think like a typical American who can get narcotized by the mass media. For me, politics was always put in a strange box, sort of like "baseball for nerds." But since Sept. 11, that bubble has burst. "The personal is political," to put it — yawn — in its most T-shirtlike form.
That's the thing that's swept me into doing something I'd always wanted to avoid: caricaturing presidents for a living. Nothing ages faster. If you look at these old Herblock cartoons, they can only be seen in the context of marginal images in the history book. You've got to read too many footnotes to get what's going on, like, "What is this Taft-Hartley Act, anyway?"
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Cory Doctorow
Upcoming appearances
* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
* Feb 10-12, 2012, Chicago, IL: Capricon 32
* Feb 13, 2012, Arlington, TX: UT Arlington College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series
* Feb 16, 2012, Victoria, BC: 13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference
Recent books:
* Context (essays)
* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)
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