through to Mick getting his knighthood, and
to give it all a sense of perspective Wyman
peppers the pages with abstracts from his
personal diaries and newspaper clippings.
The cartoons are drawn from across the
globe, inspired by world tours, new albums,
interviews, news stories and the rum todos in their personal lives.
In the beginning the
cartoons
are
all
generic hairy young
men, but as their
The Stones: A History In
Cartoons
By Bill Wyman
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750942485
I was wracking my brains for a new musicthemed cartoon book but the most recent
I could come up with is this one from 2006.
Many bands have a member who acts as the
archavist, and in the Rolling Stones that fell
to Bill Wyman. He also makes the bold claim
(and probably right too) that the Stones are
the most cartooned band in musical history,
and he should know because over the
years he’s collected just about every pocket
cartoon, caricature, editorial and even one
or two amateur doodles of Mick, Mick T,
Brian, Ron, Charlie and Keith.
The book’s presented in chronological order,
charting their emergence on the scene
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