The Liverpool Beatles Museum has just opened an extension to its exhibits, with new wing of the museum dedicated to appearances the the Fab Four have made in newspaper and magazine cartoons and comic strips from February 1963 to the present day.
Proprietor Roag Aspinall Best and comics writer Tim Quinn, who gives regular talks on the history about The Beatles in comics, opened the doors yesterday to a selected audience.
The new exhibition offers an amazing collection of world famous cartoonists are featured in the exhibition including Private Eye‘s Tony Husband, The Walking Dead‘s Charlie Adlard, Marvel Comics’ Jack Kirby, Gerald Scarfe, Carl Giles, and Dicky Howett.
The event was brought right up to date with a strip featuring The Doctor from Doctor Who in an amazing adventure with The Beatles set on 22nd November 1963, the day before the TV series first aired.
This strip won’t be published until November to tie-in to Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary. Illustrated by Tim Keable, it brought a round of applause from today’s audience, and “Damn right too,” Tim Quinn enthuses.
“We had a great time,” commented artist Tim Keable on the opening. “The museum is fantastic!”
“The exhibition features over 100 examples of the band from newspaper cartoons, strips and comic books from 1963 to the present day,” Tim tells downthetubes. “Tony Husband has just donated a Beatle cartoon of his own to the exhibition.”
The exhibition is now open to the general public and well worth the trek to the third floor of this most authentic and delightful of museums to all things Fab.
• The Liverpool Beatles Museum is at 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool L2 6RE | Web: liverpoolbeatlesmuseum.com | Facebook | Twitter
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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