{"id":17227,"date":"2019-06-14T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T01:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=17227"},"modified":"2019-06-14T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T01:25:35","slug":"life-on-the-moon-the-famous-fake-news-story-detailed-as-a-graphic-novel-by-iconic-illustrator-robert-grossman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/14\/life-on-the-moon-the-famous-fake-news-story-detailed-as-a-graphic-novel-by-iconic-illustrator-robert-grossman\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE ON THE MOON: The Famous Fake News Story, Detailed as a Graphic Novel by Iconic Illustrator Robert Grossman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3gbtHLvgh0A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Grossman<\/strong>\u00a0was the famed artist of over 500 magazine covers (<em>Time, New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York, National Lampoon<\/em>, etc.), iconic film posters (for instance,\u00a0<em>Airplane!<\/em>\u00a0and its\u00a0famous imagery of\u00a0fuselage being tied in a knot), Acady Award-nominated animation, and ingenious comic strips.<\/p>\n<p>Grossman completed his magnum opus and decade-long passion, the graphic novel\u00a0<strong><em>Life on The Moon<\/em><\/strong>, shortly before his passing last year. The artist, who reveled in illustrating the \u201cun-illustratable,\u201d wrote and drew this historical work based on the \u201cGreat Moon Hoax\u201d of the mid-19<sup>th<\/sup>century, the most successful fake news in media history.<\/p>\n<p>Film director Terry Gilliam calls\u00a0<em>Life on the Moon<\/em>, \u201cAmazingly inventive!\u201d and reveals that in his professional history, \u201cI did my best to follow in Robert Grossman\u2019s footsteps!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1835, New York newspaper\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>published a series of six articles attributed to the famous contemporary astronomer Sir John Herschel declaring the discovery of life \u2014 and even civilization \u2014 on the Moon! According to\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>, the lunar inhabitants included unicorns, bison, bipedal tail-less beavers, and intelligent humanoids with bat-like wings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Life on the Moon<\/em>\u00a0is a full-length graphic novel capturing this mythical world. Robert Grossman said the book is set in a time when \u201cmany of the signal achievements of the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Century still lay well in the future, Andrew Jackson was president, the steamboat was the summit of technology, and news traveled slowly.\u201d The unfettered novel includes real historical figures such as P.T. Barnum, Jean Jacques Audubon, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Charles Goodyear, and Edgar Allan Poe. Grossman stated that, \u201c<em>Life on the Moon<\/em>\u00a0is meant to be at least partly funny, and has a rip-roaring sci-fi ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cI read somewhere that William Randolph Hearst insisted that everything he produced had: tears, laughs, loves, and thrills.\u00a0<em>Life on the Moon<\/em>\u00a0has all that and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Art Director, author, and graphic historian Steven Heller declares, \u201cBob Grossman, one of America\u2019s most innovative caricaturists, was a spirited storyteller with a bottomless well of historical fact and trivia to draw from. In\u00a0<em>Life on the Moon<\/em>, he weaves a tale that cannot be read just once, so on that next trip to the Moon, take it along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Pete Hamill proclaims, \u201cGrossman has the subtle power to change the way we perceive reality, like Chekhov or the best of Hemingway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0called Grossman \u201can outstanding illustrator with a brash touch.\u201d<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0called his work \u201cincisive\u201d,\u00a0<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u00a0said his art was \u201cbiting\u201d and the creator of\u00a0<em>Mad<\/em>, Harvey Kurtzman, called Grossman&#8217;s art \u201cPerfect!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yoe Books\u2019\u00a0<strong>Craig Yoe<\/strong>\u00a0says, \u201cWe are both humbled and immensely proud to be publishing this masterpiece in our new original graphic novel series. I fully expect\u00a0<em>Life on the Moon<\/em>, Robert Grossman\u2019s tour de force, to take its rightful place among the most revered works in our field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Grossman\u00a0was the famed artist of over 500 magazine covers (Time, New York Times, Rolling Stone, New York, National Lampoon, etc.), iconic film&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[56,619],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/unnamed-5-1.jpg?fit=504%2C757","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16828,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/23\/best-selling-authors-r-l-stine-lev-grossman-and-victor-lavalle-attend-bookexpo-2019-with-boom-studios\/","url_meta":{"origin":17227,"position":0},"title":"Best-Selling Authors R.L. 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