I could not even speak any foreign language. Struggling for some time, I had the chance to get in touch with The New Yorker through a friend. In 1993 my first cover page and in 1995 one of my caricatures were published. I first presented my ideas about September 11 in the form of an esquisse. When they said that it would be evaluated, I completed the work and it was accepted upon the recommendations of of Francoise Molly.

Your work about September 11 was chosen for the cover of The New Yorker. What was your main message in that piece?
It was expressing the theme, “although the twin towers have collapsed they can never be erased from memory.” I was greatly affected by this September 11 subject: Nobody used to believe that such an incident could happen, we all thought it exist only in the imagination.