A Graphic Novel Unlocks How The Media Manipulates Facts [Video]
, And also the premise of a new book by that show's host, Brooke Gladstone, called "The Influencing Machine." But this is not your father's media manifesto: Gladstone conceived it from the start as a comic book, and she's a character in it herself. To pull it off, she teamed up with illustrator Josh Neufeld , whose own highly acclaimed comics similarly blur the distinction between art and journalism. The result is part Persepolis"I actually had chosen the form [of comics] even before settling on the subject matter of the book," Gladstone tells Co.Design. Indeed, Gladstone is a self-described sci-fi comics geek and had already been working on a graphic novel about journalists in the year 2045 when she "plotted [her]self into a corner." A friend suggested the classic advice -- write what you know -- and so Gladstone turned her attention back to nonfiction media criticism, and "The Influencing Machine" was born.
already, I'd have been pretty dubious" about the concept. It also helped that Gladstone and Neufeld shared a pair of key creative influences about the comics form: Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" and the graphic-novelization of Paul Auster's "City of Glass." "If I hadn't read 'Understanding Comics," I'd never have believed ["The Influencing Machine"] was even possible," Gladstone says. "I was a fan of comics, but I hadn't understood what made them so cool: how to use beats, lines, visual silence. Obviously that's in Josh's purview, but now I could at least suggest illustrations that could begin to convey the abstract ideas I wanted.""But just because someone's read those books doesn't mean they'll be able to write comics as effectively as Brooke did," Neufeld asserts. Indeed, they collaborated in the same way that any veteran comics-creating team usually does: Brooke wrote not just dialogue and captions, but whole scenes and visual action, while Neufeld refined and brought that script to life in illustrated panels. "I threw things at Josh that I could see in my head, but couldn't see how they fit into a flat plane," Gladstone says. "For example, you can't have the entire Crimean War in one panel. The war chapter was our most challenging -- we had to redesign it more than once to make it work."
But the main reason why Gladstone wanted to use the comics form to opine on the past, present, and future of media was because she felt it was the closest way of re-creating on paper the intimacy of radio broadcasting. "I wanted to make a connection, not be an absent narrator," she says. By appearing in the panels as a character and guide herself, she could literally "look readers in the eye." "Look, some of the ideas [in "The Influencing Machine"] are kind of complicated, much the same as in McCloud's book, and sometimes the readers needs to be able to 'take a moment' to grasp something before moving on," she says. "Having someone in the frame talking to you and following along gives you the space to do that.
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"For example, you can't have the entire Crimean War in one panel. The war chapter was our most challenging -- we had to redesign it more than once to make it work." But the main reason why Gladstone wanted to use the comics form to opine on the past,
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Realistically, the true potential of Crimean geographic location, climate and historical background can hardly be overestimated. The Crimean summer is similar to that of French and Portuguese Mediterranean coasts and the peninsular shares the same latitude with Venice. Additionally, the peninsular doesn’t experience the high humidity characteristic of near neighbours Greece and Turkey in the summer because of its near-island position in the Black Sea. The coastal beach cities are very hospitable to tourists and accommodation is plentiful and cheap, with prices starting from around US$7 per night. At this stage the clientele is mostly Russian, and English is not generally spoken, so it would be beneficial to have some knowledge of the Russian language. During summer, beaches can get very busy. Even though most people have not visited Crimea the names of its towns have some familiarity. For instance, Balaklava not only gave its name to a type of knitted face mask, but was the scene of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. Sevastopol was called the “hero city” after it stood up to the Nazi war machine during World War II and Yalta was where the 1945 conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin was held to discuss the re-organisation of Post War Europe.
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Crimea A region and peninsula of southern Ukraine on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. In ancient times it was colonized by Greeks and Romans and later