New Sept. 11 Book Is Riveting (Ledger)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on September 8, 2006 
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Comments(8) Sept. 11, though, was no fantasy, and thus I approached “The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation,” a graphic novel, with a certain appalled fascination. I love comic books — the “graphic novel” designation is a nice upgrade in nomenclature for the genre, but changes nothing — and I received a great deal of my early moral education from them. And we know, courtesy of artists such as Art Spiegelman, that comic books can handle deadly serious topics the way superheroes deal with emergencies: deftly and well. -Julia Keller
category: Comics, Politics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics