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Set Project: Comic artist research

I stopped on further research regarding comic strip idea. I do like the conception and the style of it. As I mentioned before the booklet accorded to the Magical Mystery Tour album. The author of the drawings is not a well famous kind. His name was Bob Gibson, the British designer and caricaturist.


The pinnacle of his career reached the early 60s, thanks to the collaboration with The Beatles. This has been such a privilege, working among Klaus Voormann (creator of the Revolver album cover), Heinz Edelmann (Yellow Submarine designer) and Alan Aldridge (creator of The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics).

Those listed artists were mostly ''appreciated'' by the Fab Four in the late 60s. Therefore, their illustrations are made from a vibrant colour palette along with the individual character. For me, this team complemented each other. 


Coming back to the first artist, Bob Gibson, born in 1938. Started his career in 1963 by designing The Beatles Book. Where he has combining text with pictures. He accounted for the logo, headers and additional drawings. But when The Beatles came with the new album Magical Mystery Tour, he attempted to make a 6 pages long comic strip adaptation inside the record sleeve. 

There is a fragment of the magician scene. I suspect that he used watercolours. This gave an interesting effect with the black ink appliance. Furthermore, he easily could distinguish saturated parts by adding water. Deceptively, this drawing is innovative. Usually, everything is outlined by a thick black line. But there, everything is much lighter, almost flowing. 



In the late 80s Apple Corps. entitled him to terminate the contract. He spent the rest of his life drawing sport caricatures and painting. 
Determinating his cartoonish style, it seems to be ordinary, but for me is extraordinary. His drawings perfectly reflect the vibe of the movie. The dialogues were written with a dose of humour and energy along with striking colours. Furthermore, he made an advertisement page promoting the album. I love this style of illustrating. I prefer when everything is pulled in a small space, creating some kind of tension, with time to time spreading stars resembled a big exhale in the composition.  

Bob Gibson, Magical Mystery Tour poster, 1967


References:
Knudde, K. (2020) Bob Gibson. [Online] lambiek.net. Available from : https://www.lambiek.net/artists/g/gibson_bob.htm [Accessed 17/04/21].


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  1. Sam Dargan19 April 2021 at 22:40

    I'd like to see some development sketches based on this style - even if you are reproducing images you have included here, as an exercise it would be a good way of understanding what you are looking at and you may find that it helps develop an aesthetic for this project. Really informative research here.

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