Book, September 12th: America After[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Ten years after the September 11 attacks, what happened to the United States and how does the world see the American soul after the tragedy? Do the fears and paranoia that inhabit the imagination of North American citizens make the terror of a decade ago still seem real? Two presidents and two wars later – Bush and Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan – and the country needs to continue following a restructuring plan that concerns the American dream much more than the economic plan or foreign policy. And it is exactly this debate, about the lost identity of the post-9/11 United States, which journalists Pascal Dellanoy and Jean-Christophe Ogier felt compelled to participate in, even though they were born on the other side of the ocean. That's why they invited other journalists, cartoonists, writers and even musicians and architects, all of them citizens of the world, to bring together in these pages the global village's impressions of the attack and what came after. In this fascinating collection of thoughts in comic form, interviews , essays and letters, the idea is not to go back to what happened, but to look forward and avoid the “memorial”. In the comics by Miles Hyman and Jerome Charyn, what we see is a portrait of the panic of the day after. With the potential enemy hidden in anyone on the streets, the traces show the first months of a country invaded much more by collective hysteria than by the actual number of letters containing the substance anthrax. The next step is hopelessness. Whether in the letter from writer Russell Banks to his grandson – portraying a country that has collapsed – or in the futuristic story drawn by Joe Sacco – imagining an unrestrained and unconstitutional government – ​​“tomorrow” is the most controversial topic in America.Prestige Cartoonists international, Frenchman Plantu and American Daryl Cagle engage in a dynamic and exciting dialogue through illustrations and caricatures about the future of the United States. In the exchange of correspondence, at once witty and depressing, mockery, satire, brilliant synthesis and shocking images serve as paragraphs. In an interview illustrated with drawings by Lorenzo Mattotti, Art Spiegelman — Pulitzer-winning author of the graphic novel Maus — says he believes that ordinary Americans, after decades of poor education, can still live the American dream; that as long as they have cheap houses, universities and cars and children don't become addicted to crack, the country can be saved. On September 12: America After, 19 artists, whether or not they were born in the United States, show soldiers fighting in front of the cameras, the intimate life of the political front, the perspectives of a new life in an old country, to prove that nothing What has happened so far has been a dream.