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Twenty-five years ago, on a Tuesday morning, cartoonist Art Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly, the art editor for theNew Yorker, were outside their Soho apartment when they saw the face of a nearby woman turn the color of ash. She was watching a plane fly into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Forgotten Island is a dizzying, cotton-candy-colored, visually spectacular mash-up, a richly stylistic ganache poured over a sweet story about friendship, memory and how friends from different backgrounds lift each other up and help each other become who they are. The way it cleverly clashes animation styles together is reminiscent of the Spider-Verse films, and no…