Workplace stresses may be killer in this off-the-rails office satire. Hilarious moments and details not even dedicated fans will remember having heard before are all told with Kunnas’s characteristically raucous humour and virtuosic drawing skills. Focusing on the band’s pre-fame days in a sly and irreverent style (and not shying away from Brian Epstein’s fixation upon John), Kunnas makes liberal use of corny in-jokes and hokey wordplay, but it’s all done in good fun. Kunnas chronicles the band from Ringo’s birth (against a backdrop of the Luftwaffe shelling Liverpool) through the release of their hit ‘Please Please Me’/‘Ask Me Why’. The cover depicts John, Paul, George and Ringo crossing the street Abbey Road style, but the street is in Hamburg’s seedy Reeperbahn red-light district, and the flip cover adds lost Beatles Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe to the mix. These are the first beats of the Beatles’ career as only legendary rock cartoonist Mauri Kunnas could tell them. There really is a whole world of great comics being made out there and available in English. And the creative roster comes from far and wide: America, Austria, Britain, China, Finland, France, Italy, Japan and Singapore. Books To Read: Best Graphic Novels: PG Previews July 2014Ĭoming up in July 2014 are these wonderfully diverse and diverting graphic novels, comics and manga for your comics-reading pleasure.
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