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Coming in time to commemorate the fifth anniversary of September 11th is a comic book adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report, the best-selling official account of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, was commissioned by Thomas LeBien, the publisher of Hill & Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The book will be edited by Sid Jacobson, who created the Richie Rich comic series, and illustrated by Ernie Colon, who has worked on comics including Spider-Man, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman.

Mr LeBien, a former nonfiction editor at Oxford University Press, said that he selected artists who could give the book a “classic American comics drawing style”.

The official report is thick (568 pages) and dense. The 144-page comics adaptation will reach an audience that might not otherwise have read this. (Including me!)