

28, the publisher sent all the early copies it had – not even Beatles’ Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr have received their copies yet – to Comic-Con where it sold out on Thursday, the first day of the convention, said Joe Marziotto, vice president of brand marketing for Bravado, which oversees all of the North American marketing for Beatles merchandising.Īnd as Morrison flips through the pages of the slim hardcover book, it seems obvious the graphic novel is going to have no problem at all finding an audience. While the book will be officially released on Aug. “I thought, the readers are going to hear it in their heads too, OK, this is good.” “Then I realized that as I’m drawing them I’m hearing the songs in my head, I’m hearing the voices,” Morrison says of the good voices, the Beatles voices, that you want to hear rattling around in there. And then more creeping doubts, wondering why anyone would want to read a book when they could simply watch the film, which is out in theaters for the anniversary in a new version with crisp images, clean sound, and all those Beatles’ songs, too.
