![]() He isn’t just a former animated film marketer in Mickey Mouse ears. Such is the case with Bill Morrison, the co-founder of Bongo Comics, which for years published comic books based on the TV series The Simpsons, another institution made strong by lampooning the world in yellow. And it’s done respectfully considering it comes from the current editor of Mad, the magazine that worries about less than even a Nowhere Man like Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D., who actually cares passionately. ![]() The pages traverse the seas of Green, Time, Science, Consumer Goods, Monsters, and Nothing to bring the action to a pulpy life. We feel the crescendo thrill of musical victory and the stumbling glissando of defeat. The Beatles Yellow Submarine graphic novel captures the angst of all the lonely people without a closely mic’d violin quartet. Music is a superpower on the pages of a comic book. The book has it all, except the music of course, which is replaced by colorful adventures told in easy to digest pictorial story telling. As they did in swinging London, The Beatles stir the peace loving Pepperlandians to revolution, 33 and a third per minute to be precise, against the oppressive Apple Bonkers, Butterfly Stompers, Clowns, Snapping Turtle Turks, the dreaded Flying Glove, the Chief Blue Meanie and his untrustworthy sidekick, Max. The formerly fab four are mere travelers to Pepperland, called there to restore the music that the anti-music missiles of the Blue Meanies silenced. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club’s Band, and of course, the originals, The Beatles. The band is all here in the graphic novel: The Lord Mayor of the musical republic of Pepperland, Old Fred, and the national beat-keepers, Sgt. Yellow Submarine captured the flower power era of peace, love and, well, why go on when love is all you need. The artwork was done by Dunning, Peter Max, and Heinz Edelmann. The film was directed by George Dunning from a screenplay by Lee Minoff, Jack Mendelsohn, Love Story writer Erich Segal, and Al Brodax, who was responsible for the Beatles half-hour cartoons. The movie was based on the song of the same name, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, sung by Ringo Starr, with George Harrison forever blowing bubbles in a George Martin production. And this kind of project comes with a lot of expectations.įilms like Yellow Submarine happen once or maybe twice upon a time. The Beatles Yellow Submarine takes the film’s most indelible images and lovingly puts them in as faithful a story form as be expected. We can’t all live in a Yellow Submarine, but Bill Morrison’s graphic novel based on the animated rock-music-infused classic film opens the portals for more room without flooding the cabin.
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