Imagine you’re finishing the cover for newspapers or magazine covers for the next issue. Everything is ready to roll out, printing the cover has already begun, and suddenly you have to recreate the cover because it doesn’t fit the current events of what is one of the most tragic events of the 21^st century: the tragic 9/11 terrorist attacks. Everyone was working fast for the new covers. Images of the attack, planes, people running away, and the crashing of the towers were shown on most of the covers, some in colour, some in black and white, but all almost the same. Just raw and sad images. People didn’t really want to see the harsh reality in the stores with all those raw images. So, Mouly and her husband Art Spiegelman came up with the iconic cover together. Mouly didn’t want any images, “I want no image. I can’t do this. No image can do justice to this.”. When explaining her need to create a cover for her company to her neighbour, they responded with, “What, you have to go to work to do a magazine cover? That’s ridiculous! I’ll tell you what you do: no cover.” In the meantime Spiegelman was creating an image that contrasted the horrible event with the lovely weather of that day, with the towers black against a bright blue sky. When Spiegelman walked past by where the towers once stood he felt a ghostly presence, the towers were there but also not, it was invisible. Still, Mouly felt no image, painting, or drawing. It just couldn’t do justice for the rest of New York. So, she came up with an idea to do an all-black cover just like her neighbour suggested: no cover. That’s how this cover made a statement to the world. It also stood out between all the other covers.