he calls this the committee on public information and chooses an old friend, the george creel, to runge creel had done publicity for wilson's campaigns and was a veteran of journalism and publishing. he actually got his start in journalism as a joke writer. william randolph hearst. so he is in the middle of this picture, decidedly like someone who does not write jokes for a living, but was great of propaganda and almost immediately he uses his contacts to put together a group of . so think mad men of the 19 teens and they were well known for commercial art and book magazine illustrations he calls them division for pictorial publicity. and he puts another veteran the of the biz in charge. and this is charles dana gibson who one of the best known commercial artists in new york. this time you probably recognize his famous gibson girl who is whose featured here, the gibson girl was an iconic, tall, thin socialite with bouffant hai thed early 1900s. but quickly was replaced by the flapper. but gibson knows everybody in the publishing business, but he faces the challenge of this. how do you