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Cover of In the Shadow of No TowersNominee2005

In the Shadow of No Towers

by Art Spiegelman

Nominated. Each year the judges shortlist only a handful of books in each category, so a nomination is a mark of a book the comics world rates among the best of its year.

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Viking / 48 pages / ISBN 9780670915415
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