Art Spiegelman's MAUS and In the Shadow of No Towers are parallel books, devoted to historical crisis as family history-the former to the Holocaust, the latter to the attack on the World Trade Center-both narrated through the experiences of the author's familyThese two high points in Spiegelman's career so This paper will investigate by which means in his comics series In the Shadow of No Towers Art Spiegelman has succeeded in constructing a counter-narrative,that is, a narrative that serves to