Graphic Novel

The graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers was not a book that I enjoyed reading. It took a couple times reading each comic strip, but in the end it was a little radical. I have always thought that 9/11 was a really big deal, and I think Art Spiegelman does too, but he makes it seem that Americans don't care about it really care.

In his very first comic, there is a picture of a bird dressed in red, white, and blue, tied around his neck. This gives the impression that America is forced on all people. Now maybe some people believe this, but I don't think that its the correct description of September 11th. Another comic was where Osama Bin Ladin (with a mouse nose) and George W. Bush are staring at each other as if they were going to fight. The two are standing over Spiegelman sleeping. The graphic novel was made in 2004, so there wasn't as much hate for George W. as there is now, but a couple years after the attacks, I thought that patriotism was at its peak. Personally at least.