What becomes interesting is when you have more than one box, either superimposed or next to each other, because that implies time and that’s essential to what comics have to offer.
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Cartoonist and artist Art Spiegelman explicates the evolution of comics, alternative and otherwise, from the editorial cartoons of William Hogarth through Winsor McCay and his own work for The New Yorker and The Nation. Just two months after September 11, 2001, Spiegelman explains how comics helped him cope with a disaster while he was living in the first block uptown of the World Trade center that wasn’t evacuated after the terrorist attacks. (He knew he’d be no good helping the search for bodies, he explains with his trademark thoughtful wit, so he volunteered to redesign The New Yorker’s cover for their forthcoming issue.)
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