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Outstanding
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Boston Globe Carlo Wolff
Small but eloquent comfort, it's original, provocative, and populist art.
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
This is a powerful and quirky work of visual storytelling by a master comics artist.
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Outstanding
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Salon Scott Thill
[A] must-have collection of hard-hitting, self-deprecating strips on life during wartime.
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Outstanding
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San Francisco Chronicle Kenneth Baker
Spiegelman interweaves pain, sadness, dread, laughter and outrage in this book as perhaps only his medium permits.
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Favorable
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The Guardian Aili McConnon
In the Shadow of No Towers is most compelling as it charts the changing memory of 9/11.
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Favorable
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Baker
A wrenching, poignant, angry reaction to the attack on the World Trade Center. [7 Sep 2004]
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review David Hajdu
An odd, thin but robust hybrid of a book... vigorously unorthodox.
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Favorable
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The Onion A.V. Club Tasha Robinson
By openly displaying his influences, Spiegelman tips his hand a little too much, and by dividing his attention, he takes some of the bite out of his primary subject, which has already been bitten half to death over the past three years.
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Favorable
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USA Today Christopher Theokas
No Towers is provocative and partisan. But it's also very personal. Spiegelman offers his fears, his horror and his anger for everyone to see.
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Mixed
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Village Voice Joseph McElroy
Jokes grotesque with mixed and blurred antihero ironies and displaced body parts are crammed into cartoon windows like dwelling places for our city subconscious.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Michiko Kakutani
"No Towers" is ultimately a fragmentary, unfinished piece: brilliant at times, but scattershot, incomplete and bizarrely truncated.
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Mixed
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New York Observer Adam Begley
Mr. Spiegelman dazzles with his artistry: He flashes his wit; he shows off his remarkable flair for design. But he never hooks his reader, mostly because he hasn't found a way to tap into the tragedy of the attack.
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Mixed
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Flak Lindsay Nordell
This is the problem with "No Towers": Anyone old enough to read it is old enough to remember its events and to have taken all those jarring images to heart -- so much so that Spiegelman's images cannot dislodge our own.
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Mixed
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The Independent Gordon Burn
A scattershot yet oddly constrained performance.
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Unfavorable
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The New Republic Wyatt Mason
Its frenetic marrying of styles, while it keeps a reader's attention, also produces an estrangement from the distress that it describes: it sets the reader adrift.
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Unfavorable
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Washington Post Douglas Wolk
He's venting in all directions rather than making a point, and his jokes are pure lead.
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