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I don't think there will be a paperback version, given the format. When I saw him speak at the Strand in NYC he said the only way he could see it being published is as it is, with big thick cardboard pages and no gutter binding, like a children's book.
There are a few cool thigs in there -- one of which is Spiegelman riffing on Little Nemo in Slumberland, with Nemo falling out of bed wearing a gas mask, as was the vogue in the weeks directly after 9/11 in NYC.
Another is Spiegelman's constant reminder of something he saw with his own eyes as one of the towers fell, something we've never seen in the countless replayed images of the towers falling in the media. He was running away from the tower with his daughter and wife, and they turned around to see the tower glowing, its beams suddenly becoming white-and-orange hot just before they collapsed -- he said it looked like some eerie glowing spectre of the tower, sort of like a weird colorful x-ray of the tower's bones and beams. That image, which he tried to capture in many paintings and which he finally feels he captured well in a Photoshop painting, is pretty wild and it's the first I've heard of this image in relation to 9/11. He, his wife and his daughter, who all saw this, feel his final version of it captures pretty much exactly what it looked like for a second before collapsing. |
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