TodayI in Comics History, February 25: Happy birthday, George Harrison!

Born on this day in 1943: Happy birthday, to singer, songwriter, and producer George Harrison! Oh yeah, in case you didn't know, he was one of them there Beatles. My favorite Beatle, in fact, moving on from an age where my favorite Beatle was first Ringo Starr, then Paul McCartney, then John Lennon, and now George. I think I have run out of Beatles to have as my favorite, unlike my fandom of The Rutles. In that case I can always move onto Leppo. He didn't know how to play an instrument, but he did know how to have a good time.


from The Beatles: Their Story in Pictures (ITV, 1982), script by Angus P. Allan, art by Arthur Ranson (collected from the strip in (Look-In)
"Sorry, girls, he's spiritual!"


from The Beatles one-shot (Dell, September 1964), pencils and inks by Joe Sinnott
Happy birthday also to this guitar! Just today it has reached the ripe old retirement age of 65, unless George lent it to Pete Townshend.


And a happy birthday, we guess, to George's mysterious childhood ailments!



Naw, just to George. Happy birthday, George!


from (top) Yellow Submarine one-shot (Gold Key, February 1969), script by Paul S. Newman, pencils by Jose Delbo; and
(bottom) The Beatles: Yellow Submarine graphic novel (Titan, August 2008); script and pencils by Bill Morrison, inks by Andrew Pepoy and Tone Rodriguez, colors by Nathan Kane, letters by Aditya Bidikar