Spiegelman lived close to the, which was known as 'Ground Zero' after the that destroyed the. Hellman published a 'Legal Action Comics' benefit book to cover his legal costs, to which Spiegelman contributed a back-cover cartoon in which he relieves himself on a Rall-shaped urinal. Cartoonist responded by sending a forged email under Rall's name to thirty professionals the prank escalated until Rall launched a defamation suit against Hellman for $1.5 million. In an article titled 'The King of Comix' in, Rall accused Spiegelman of the power to 'make or break' a cartoonist's career in New York, while denigrating Spiegelman as 'a guy with one great book in him'. Spiegelman's influence and connections in New York cartooning circles drew the ire of political cartoonist in 1999. Editorial cartoonist begrudged Spiegelman's influence in New York cartooning circles. Spiegelman contributed the essay 'Getting in Touch With My Inner Racist' in the Septemissue of. The same year, Voyager Company published a CD-ROM version of Maus with extensive supplementary material called The Complete Maus, and Spiegelman illustrated a 1923 poem by called.
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