![]() Mary and Bryan Talbot’s book made headlines in their native Britain for being the first graphic novel to win the Costa biography award. As a doomed love story, it’s totally captivating and heartbreaking thanks to Bellstorf’s lyrical pace and charcoal art. As an insight into the beginnings of a band who would change the world, it’s unique. Stuart Sutcliffe chose to stay behind in Berlin with Kirchherr whilst the rest of the band went onto fame and fortune, before he died tragically young of a brain hemorrhage. Somewhat lost in that continuing onslaught was Arne Bellstorf’s “Baby’s In Black,” a very personal look at the Lads from Liverpool.īased on extensive interviews with Astrid Kirchherr, Bellstorf's beautiful black-and-white comic reveals the untold story of the band’s original bassist. Just in the past few years, Ron Howard has directed a documentary about their early days, their erstwhile manager Brian Epstein had his life dramatized in the graphic novel “The Fifth Beatle,” and a spin-off entry in the “Rock Band” series of videogames boasted an all-Beatles catalog. Here are 17 such amazing true life stories told in comics.įorty years since they broke up, The Beatles still hold a fascination that no other pop band has managed. You can read graphic analyses of James Joyce, video games, or even just a working class couple from Britain. Plus they have the added bonus of being able to tell stories that are intimate, or worldwide epics, or about long-dead figures in long-dead countries. RELATED: A History Of Unexpected Celebrity Comic Book Appearances Non-fiction graphic novels don’t all have to be autobiographical comics! Many of the best examples of modern journalism, biography and even genres like true crime can be found told through panels, word balloons and onomatopoeic sound effects. There are no Last Sons of Krypton or Scrooge McDucks in our world (.so far as we know), but there are still plenty of amazing true-life stories that have been told through the medium of comics. Comic books have given us stories of people with supernatural abilities, cartoon animals going on epic adventures, sci-fi myths beyond your wildest imagination.
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