


The land falls under a surprise attack from the music-hating Blue Meanies, who live in or beyond the blue mountains. At the edge of the land is a range of high blue mountains. The titular Yellow Submarine rests on an Aztec-like pyramid on a hill. Morrison who writes and pencils Yellow Submarine tells the story of Pepperland, “a cheerful, music-loving paradise under the sea, protected by Sgt. Morrison produced “an initial cover and 25 pages but then it had to stop as the deal fell through.”Īlthough it took 50 years to achieve, Titan Comics announced a deal with Apple Corps Ltd and have now published an official illustrated adaptation of the film that is available to buy. In the same year, Bill Morrison was approached by Dark Horse Comics and commissioned to produce it. When the film was being re-released in 1999 Apple wanted a new full-colour 48-page one-shot (a standalone comic book not part of a series), prestige format comic book, adherent to the original film. There had been a Yellow Submarine comic published by Gold Key Comics in 1968 before the film was released, but it was not true to the finalised film character designs. Renata Adler wrote in The New York Times in 1968 that Edelmann’s approach had “the spirit and conventions of the Sunday comic strip.” Hence surely a graphic novel would immediately organically flow on following the release of Yellow Submarine. In the 1960s he was experimenting with a stylized, soothingly fluid, neo-Art Nouveau manner. The art direction for Yellow Submarine would come from Heinz Edelmann. Mr Epstein replied, “We would need great art.” Mr Epstein finally agreed to “Yellow Submarine” and that “Yellow Submarine” had some of Turner’s qualities.” Turner’s “Peace - Burial at Sea” and marvelled at that painting’s intense colours.” “Wouldn’t it be great if we could get those colours to move?” “Mr Brodax asked. Brian Epstein was a stumbling block as well.” Things only changed when “Mr Brodax and Mr Epstein” went to the Tate Gallery in London and happened upon J. The Beatles were unenthusiastic about Mr Brodax’s more conventional-looking cartoon series. “It was not easy to get initial approval for “Yellow Submarine. The journey to getting the film actually made was a difficult one and progress towards achieving this graphic novel was ever so cumbersome. It could be argued that a title track for the story of Yellow Submarine (taken from the title of a Beatles song sung by Ringo Starr which initially featured on Revolver) should be “The Long and Winding Road”. Xs Noize was invited to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles Yellow Submarine film by taking readers (courtesy of Titan Comics) through the new A4 hardcover 112-page graphic novel of the film by Bill Morrison (The Simpsons).
