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Fab4 mania a Beatles obsession and the concert of a lifetime

"Award winning cartoonist Carol Tyler (Soldier's Heart) takes the reader back to the exhilaration and madness of Beatlemania. Adapted from a diary she created in 1965, Fab4 Mania chronicles a formative year when four British lads awakened young Carol's senses and opened her up to the world beyond sm...

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Main Author: Tyler, Carol (Author, Artist)
Format: Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:English
Published: Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2018]
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Tyler, Carol > Childhood and youth > Comic books, strips, etc.
Rock music fans > Comic books, strips, etc.
Autobiographical comics.
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Summary:"Award winning cartoonist Carol Tyler (Soldier's Heart) takes the reader back to the exhilaration and madness of Beatlemania. Adapted from a diary she created in 1965, Fab4 Mania chronicles a formative year when four British lads awakened young Carol's senses and opened her up to the world beyond small-town Fox Lake, Illinois. Brimming with rich period details, gorgeous full color illustrations, generational confusion, cheeky humor, and teen-age camaraderie, the ever-exuberant Tyler guides us through her obsessive devotion to the Beatles, which includes a first-hand account of their Comiskey Park concert in Chicago on August 20. Fab4 Mania is at once an endearing memoir of her almost-innocent youth and a celebration of the most innovative pop group in the history of music." -- Back cover.
Physical Description:250 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN:9781683960614
1683960610
Author Notes:Born in Chicago in the 1950s, Carol Tyler is a cartoonist who bridged underground and alternative comics with her debut in Weirdo magazine in 1987: collections such as The Job Thing (1993) and Late Bloomer (2005) followed. In 2015, Fantagraphics published Soldier's Heart , her Eisner Award-nominated biography of her father, tracing his return from WWII and how his trauma impacted his family. Fab4 Mania (Fantagraphics, 2018), based on her 1965 diary, is about her teenage obsession with the Beatles. In recent years, she has taught Sequential Art at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is a CXC Master Cartoonist and a Slate Studio Prize winner. In 2023, Married To Comics , a documentary about Tyler's life with her husband and fellow cartoonist Justin Green (1945-2022), won rave reviews.

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