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The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television (2019)

door Koren Shadmi

Andere auteurs: AndWorld Design (Letterer)

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We recognize him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the "Angry Young Man" of Television. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and viewership alike to expand their minds and standards-rejecting notions of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn't until he began to write about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a revolutionary and an outsider.… (meer)
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More well-written than I expected for what is essentially a behind-the-scenes summary of the various types of work done to make Paranorman come to life on screen. This type of animation is so fascinating to see made, even though it’s stated in here that the intent is for you not to notice all the work involved. To the contrary, part of what’s attractive to me about the medium is how tangible that artist’s fingerprint is on every bit of the frame. ( )
  bobbybslax | Nov 7, 2023 |
“You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.”

I grew up in the 1960s, so I clearly remember huddling around our black & white TV and watching the Twilight Zone. Of course, everyone remembers the cool, well-dressed host, with the smooth, somewhat sinister delivery- Rod Serling. Prior to reading this wonderful graphic bio, if you would have asked me if I knew anything else about Serling, other than being a writer, I would have been clueless. I had no idea that he was a paratrooper in the Pacific during WWII and was at the forefront of the Golden Age of Televison era. I cannot praise this graphic bio enough. Well-written and beautifully illustrated. ( )
  msf59 | Jan 25, 2023 |
Rod Serling is one of those names that everyone who had ever cared about classic SF TV would recognize (although I would admit that it took me forever to stop reading his name as Sterling). If they don't, they may recognize his most popular show - The Twilight Zone - and the name had become so popular in the modern world that I suspect that even people who never cared about SF had heard of.

Koren Shadmi decided to tell the story of Serling in graphic form. And what better way to do it than to frame it inside of a story -- with a twist at the end, so reminiscent of the show that even if you expect it, you still smile when it comes.

On a long plane ride, Serling's seatmate asks him to tell her a story - and he decides to tell his own life story - from the WWII to finding fame in Tinsel Town. Science fiction was not where he started - he tried to be a serious writer first but it soon became clear that the censors won't allow a lot of what he wanted to say. So he moved his stories to the future, to Mars - seemingly away from the now and here. And yet, as any reader of the genre will tell you, they were the stories of today, of the here and now. At around the same time, the science fiction authors of the Warsaw Pact countries were using the same methods to hide their stories of subversion and critique -- and just as it happened there, the US censors ignored the genre (in a lot of ways, being considered a sub-par genre and something for children and not a serious helped).

Looking back, The Twilight Zone was a phenomenon. Back at the time it aired? It almost killed its creator and its ratings were not where they should have been.

Shadmi does not shy from the serious topics - Serling is Jewish and this did not sit very well with a lot of people. He neglected his family and his health during long stretches of his career and he was always chasing the next thing - more fame, the better review, the next best thing. And yet, he comes out of the story as a human - maybe a bit more talented than most but a hard working man who achieved what he set his eyes on... or almost did.

The art (again by Koren Shadmi) is functional and clean - it supports the narrative without distracting from it. It is mostly black and white - slightly different between the two timelines (the plane ride (where the black/grey turns into blue/grey) and the story the storytellers tells).

Even if you do not care about SF, this may be worth reading. It encapsulates a time that is long gone - the story of Hollywood and the modern television, the story of censors and the birth of a cultural phenomenon. And even if you think you know all about it, there will probably be some surprises. ( )
2 stem AnnieMod | Jan 9, 2023 |
The Twilight Man (2020) by Koren Shadmi. This biography is subtitled Rod Serling and the Birth of Television. Normally I do not read bios that might come my way. The reasons are not relevant in that I did read this one. It was done in a very similar manner as to the bio I read about Pablo Picasso not so long ago. This is the telling of Rod Serling’s adult life ala the graphic novel.
We open with a long air journey where Mr. Serling is persuaded by the unnamed woman sitting next to him to talk him about his life. She points out the bracelet he wears, Army Parachute wings, so he starts with his entry to the military and the 511th Parachute Regiment at the start of the war.
Serling, due to his smaller stature, is called to the C.O.’s office and told he wasn’t going to be part of the regiment. Undeterred, Serling works hard and manages to get a berth in the training regiment. The physical training is very difficult and there is high rate of drop outs even before the first jump, but Serling won’t quit and eventually earns his jump wings.
Then comes an entire section on his time during WWII and the South Pacific theater of operations. This is yet another grueling test for the young man, one which so many of his comrades didn’t survive. And it nearly killed him.
After the war there is college and an internship at a radio station in New York City. There are years of struggle, bouncing between a couple of markets, then on to television. The entire time he wrote radio scripts by the dozens.
Then comes the rest of the story including the rise and fall of Rod Serling. We know his big successes, but the dips between them are fleshed out. Then, in June of 1975, Rod Serling died during surgery for a heart attack. The pressure he had placed upon himself his whole life finally killed him in the end.
The graphics done in black and white and gray-scale, mimic the many hours of television he brought to us. The panels capture not only what was happening, but the feel of the times and Mr. Serling’s thought, to a degree. The dialog is crisp, moving the telling of this gifted man’s life in a cadence he himself might have learned as a young man.
Mr. Shsdmi presents Rod Serling’s adult life story with dignity and respect. And, just as Mr. Serling himself might have done, it is served with a twist. ( )
  TomDonaghey | Aug 19, 2022 |
This is a biography, in graphic novel format, of Rod Serling, from his traumatic experiences in WWII, through his television career and struggles for creative control over his material, to the stressful price of his success. It's all told by means of a framing story in which Serling is sharing a long plane flight with a stranger and telling her his life story... but, of course, there's a twist at the end. It's a conceit that works well enough, as does the black-and-white artwork that captures a distinctly Twilight Zone-y sort of feel. I don't know that it goes quite as deep into Serling's creative imagination as I personally would be happy to go, but it's a nice biographical overview that gives you a good feel for the man, and I'd recommend it for fans of his work. ( )
  bragan | Oct 29, 2020 |
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We recognize him as our sharply dressed, cigarette-smoking tour guide of The Twilight Zone, but the entertainment business once regarded him as the "Angry Young Man" of Television. Before he became the revered master of science fiction, Rod Serling was a just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. He vehemently challenged the networks and viewership alike to expand their minds and standards-rejecting notions of censorship, racism and war. But it wasn't until he began to write about real world enemies in the guise of aliens and monsters that people lent their ears. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory, and himself to the edge of sanity. Rod operated in a dimension beyond that of contemporary society, making him both a revolutionary and an outsider.

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