Art Spiegelman couldn't get his 9/11 comics published in the US
Soon after the attacks, he quit the New Yorker to protest against the “widespread conformism” in the United States media, and the tendency to “throw a blanket of silence” over controversial material that might offend their customers. When he offered the New York Times and the New York Review of Books the chance to serialize his graphic novel about living through 9/11 in Lower Manhattan — he lives in Soho, and his daughter went to school near the World Trade Center — no mainstream American title would touch it. One said it would be “great for Europe.” In The Shadow Of No Towers was eventually run by the German Die Zeit, and published as a graphic novel to critical acclaim.