9/11. The illustrated report of the American Commission on 11/XNUMX. Everything that happened before, during and after

 

Author: Jacobson Sid; Colón Ernie
Year: 2006
Data: 133 paperback pages
Editor: Alet Editions

The first illustrated report of the American commission on the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 is also released in Italy. Everything that happened before, during and after the tragic attack on the Twin Towers, conceived by the designers Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón and with a Preface by Gianni Riotta.
Directly entering sixth place in the New York Times bestseller list, with a first American edition of 100.000 copies, this book looks like a comic and reads like one, but the topic it deals with is very serious: it talks about what went wrong before, during and after 11/XNUMX. The illustrated report condenses a substantial amount of information into a lively and accessible format. Particularly striking is the part in which the authors create a series of pages that follow the fate of all four planes, minute by minute, in a horizontal grid that makes us suddenly understand the frenzied speed of those terrifying sequences.
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón are very faithful to the original, in which the readability and comic-like rhythm that have contributed so much to its success already stood out. This report therefore represents a clear and concise document of the facts and decisions taken, in which the authors Jacobson and Colón exploit all the potential of the expressive medium given by the graphic novel to depict the chaos that broke out in the button rooms while the airlines, the officers Security officers and rulers were desperately trying to figure out what was happening and how to react. And their chapter on the rescue operation is truly moving. This graphic adaptation is not only an incredible document of contemporary history, it also demonstrates the power of comics. The two authors and illustrators have condensed more than 500 pages in a slim and intelligible volume that does not trivialize and does not oversimplify the results of the investigation. Colón's drawings are invaluable in understanding the series of events that led to the attacks. Readers can follow Osama bin Laden's movements from Saudi Arabia to Sudan to Afghanistan, and the flow of money from charities to terrorist groups to understand, in a terrifying moment of clarity, the extent of Al Qaeda's global reach. . And most of all, this book is accessible to everyone. ...