When he first saw The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, the "comic book version" of the almost-600-page 9/11 Commission Report, on a bookstore shelf, Dan Tandarich was shocked. After flipping through it, however, the 5th grade teacher at Public School 124 in Brooklyn decided that condensing and illustrating the commission's findings was a great idea. "I wouldn't pick up a non-graphic version of the report," he says. "You could have a whole new set of 9/11 [report] readers."

The readers ...