One of the most impressive accomplishments in comics I've come across in recent years is the collaboration between Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon adapting the 9/11 Commission Report into graphic form.
Colon is a magnificent artist and the The 9/11 Report is presented with clarity and with the addition of graphics givin the sometimes dense narrative, a great deal more emotion. It's powerful stuff.
Just the other day I chanced on the sequel titled After 9/11 and it tracks the events which developed out of the attack and follows the story up to June 6, 2008. Again it's the work of Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon and if anything is more impressive visually. Colon's craftsmanship and his ability to nimbly move between styles makes the tome far less static than it would be in lesser hands.
If you haven't seen these, go to your local library and check them out. All public libraries should be required to carry them, and I suspect most do. It's well worth your time.
By the way, here's an interview with Jacobson and Colon about the first volume. It speaks to their motives and how they worked.
And here for no particular reason are other 9/11 comics which have been produced.
Are there others?
And let me add this tome by longtime comic book artist Herb Trimpe. The Power of Angels is a frank peek behind the scenes in those awful days.
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