British Update: The Beatles Story and Faceache Vol. 1 – More Classic British Comics Compiled
*Collected Editions: One trend we’ve been delighted to see in recent years has been the effort to archive the comics strips of the UK in affordable collections. Two such tomes grace our shelves this week: Ken Reid’s ‘Faceache’, from the pages of Jet and Buster, gathers all the first wave of the shapeshifting scruffian in the hardcover “Vol.1: The First Hundred Scrunges”, New/Mint at £15. By way of contrast, “The Beatles Story”, by Angus Allan and Arthur Ranson, collects the entire biographical strip of the legendary group as originally serialised in the pages of “Look-In”. While necessarily sanitised for the younger readership, the narrative is accurate, and Ranson’s knack for capturing the likenesses of the Fab Four is remarkable. New/Mint hardcover on sale at £13.