Politicus Ex Machina

In a TV interview, a stereotypical politician faces the interviewer’s generally formulated questions and uses highly stylised rhetoric in his rambling answers as a substitute for precision in content. The interviewer speaks by means of real statements by politicians who have been selected independently of their political orientation. The theme is the tension between rhetoric and speech content. The montage technique combines the visual and verbal levels in the comic.

By means of augmented reality, the comic, which is designed analogously as a collage, is supplemented by another level of content and design: now the viewer of the TV interview gives his opinion on what he has seen in a frame-by-frame hand-drawn sequence.

Politicus Ex Machina was exhibited at the Nextcomic Festival in Linz, Austria.