The Twilight Man
Rod Serling and the Birth of Television - Softcover Trade

Koren Shadmi

Authors:
Koren Shadmi (Story & art)
Date:
Oct 08, 2019
Edition:
Softcover Trade
Format:
180 pages - Duotone
7.6 x 10.2 in
ISBN:
9781643375717
Price:
$22.95 - £17.99 - Can$29.99

The Twilight Man
Rod Serling and the Birth of Television - Softcover Trade

Koren Shadmi

A biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his descent into his own personal Twilight Zone.

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.

In the same series

Rod Serling and the Birth of Television

The Twilight Man

Rod Serling and the Birth of Television

Press

Alan Brennert, Nebula Award Winner

"Twilight Man is a respectful but clear-eyed tribute to one of the most important and influential dramatists of the 20th century."

JOE DANTE

Having experienced "The Twilight Zone" and "Playhouse 90" first hand, I fancied myself as pretty clued in to the Rod Serling legacy, but I admit I learned a lot from Koren Shadmi's unexpectedly poignant and cleverly observed graphic novel treatment of Serling's life and career. It's a unique take on the lasting work of a complicated man who found his greatest success when coding the messages of his socially conscious narratives into "a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination"

GRAPHIC POLICY

“An excellent and engrossing depiction of Serling’s life and legacy. The story by Shadmi is brisk, intellectual, and well developed, [and] the art by Shadmi is breathtaking.”

David Kushner, Author of Masters of Doom

“Koren Shadmi expertly takes us into a dimension of incredible imagination. The life of Rod Serling is a great American story of determination and invention - and the perfect stuff of a graphic novel.”

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