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Paul Peterson, ehemaliger kanadischer Sozialarbeiter, jetzt Theaterautor, beteiligte sich an dem Multimedia-Projekt The Next Day (Pop Sandbox 2011) über den mehrfachen Selbstmord in seiner eigenen Familie.
Co-Autor dabei war der kanadische Filmemacher und Produzent Alex Jensen:

“They had a fire in them to tell other people. They wanted others to know there is a next day.”
Paul Peterson, Co-Writer and former social worker, in The Toronto Star

The devastating effects of suicide on family members left behind haunted social worker Paul Peterson in his work for over 10 years. Peterson originally conceived of this project as a traditional documentary exploring the resounding question, What if those who attempted suicide had lived to see the next day? When the idea arrived at Pop Sandbox, Creative Producer Alex Jansen saw in the deeply philosophical content of Peterson’s vision something best experienced in an open-ended interactive format, a contemplative exploration rather than a static story.
The design team sought to highlight the universality of struggles with depression, substance abuse, and suicide by choosing an animated interface, decoupling the specific identities of the four suicide survivors who are interviewed from the emotional experience given in their own words. The style and content of The Next Day was also translated into a graphic novella that accompanies the interactive documentary. The producers chose these forms for their resonance with young people, the social group with the highest suicide rates in their native Canada. But as one reviewer of the graphic novel notes, The Next Day isn’t just for young people. “If you are someone who is prone to moodiness, if you sometimes feel like life has kicked your ass so hard there’s no possible way you could ever recuperate, if you’ve ever felt so profoundly alone that, even for a moment, you questioned your own tangible existence—in other words, if you’re a human being—I urge you to buy a copy of The Next Day.”

Ergänzend bei Paul Gravett:

The publisher says:
Around the world, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. The number of attempts is up to 20 times greater… What if they had waited just one more day? The Next Day is a ground-breaking print graphic novel and a separate interactive animated online documentary, both constructed from interviews with survivors of near-fatal suicide attempts. In this poetic and profound philosophical exploration, four seemingly ordinary people each offer haunting insight into life, the decision to end it, and what comes after… The graphic novel presents a powerful collection of key moments from these four people’s lives while the interactive online experience allows viewers the opportunity to create their own path through the original audio interviews, coupled with stunning animations based on the illustrations of John Porcellino. Co-written by a social worker turned playwright, directed by a filmmaker, illustrated by an acclaimed fine artist and cartoonist, and developed for the web by an award-winning animation and technical production team, The Next Day is an exciting new hybrid of documentary film, animation, comic book and interactive storytelling.

Paul Gravett says:
A major addition to the sector of Graphic Medicine, comics tackling medical and psychological issues, The Next Day gives a voice to those who have lived another day and chosen life over suicide. I can think of few artists more sensitive and appropriate to the task of illustrating these tales than Porcellino. I met Pop Sandbox’s Alex Jansen in London last year and heard about this exciting project, which is not just a graphic novel but also a robust interactive animated online documentary co-produced with the prestigious National Film Board of Canada now in production. Porcellino is guesting at TCAF in Toronto this May as part of the book’s launch.

Ezequiel Adamovsky, argentinischer Historiker und Graswurzelaktivist.

Adamovsky's book Anti-capitalism for beginners: the new generation on emancipatory movements (Buenos Aires, 2003, ISBN 987-555-011-6) has received many positive reviews and was translated into Japanese, German, English and Korean.