A great new book collates The Fab Four's comic book appearances
There are certain barometers of fame – being known by your first name only, having an airport named after you and I think it’s fair to say being given a cameo in a comic. The Beatles were co-opted into graphic form hundreds of times and now Enzo Gentile has collected more than 200 of these appearances into his new book The Beatles in Comic Strips. What’s fascinating is to see how many different styles they’ve been reproduced in, from retro 1960s aesthetics to Futurama and how cultural cornerstones capture the imagination in such different ways.
Beatles Story 4, 1978
Batman 222, 1970
Il Male, 1980
Tutto Musica & Spettacolo 1988
The Invisibles 1994
Playboy’s Little Annie Fanny, 2010
The Beatles by Raffaele Ciccaleni, 1981
Voodoo Child. The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix, 1995
Futurama 25, 2006
Beatles Story, 1978
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.