Fab4 Mania
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"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.
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Adapted from the author's own diary, this is a slice of life graphic novel about 60s Beatle-mania. It's a very cool assembly of pop charts, ad jingles, and almost mixed media presentation accompanied with the author's own words. It has the POV of a 13 year old girl. So if that voice is not what you're wanting to hear, definitely not the graphic novel for you. I really enjoyed it. It's also nice to see the author's mom and dad pop up, who were characterized so well in A Soldier's Heart.
Picked up at the library without reading the synopsis.
I'm not interested in the juvenile perspective (POV) on this.
