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Nothing but the truth
On the third anniversary of the 11th September attacks on New York, Paul Dale examines two very personal literary evaluations of that day, while Mark Robertson shops around for 9/11 merchandise and Brian Donaldson checks out the conspiracy theories.
‘He’s starting to get nostalgic about his near-death experience back in September ‘01. Nothin’ like the end of the world to help bring folks together . . . But why did those
provincial American flags have to sprout out of the embers of Ground Zero? Why not . . . a globe??? Art Spiegelman from In the Shadows ofNo Towers.
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Art Spiegelman \\';ls such a tnan. Like man} bel'ore him he had come to the Big Apple b} del’ault. Born in Sweden in HMS. he emigrated to the ['8 \\ ith his parents in his earl_\' childhood. Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and started drawing prol'essionall} at the age ol' lb. Although his parents wanted him to become a dentist. he majored in art and philosophy bel'ore joining New York's underground commix moxement. lligh times with publications Real l’u/p. limit/4 Lust and Bran-re Stat. among others. l'ollou'ed. But it was the publication ol .lluux in commix compendium l’mmt Animals in l‘)72 that put Spiegelman on the map. .llum u as based on his