Rock 'N' Roll Comics' Hard Rock Heroes Due In April
March 23, 2010, 14 years ago
According to USAToday.com, Rock 'N' Roll Comics, which in the early '90s pulled back the curtain on the rock-star lifestyle, are making a comeback.
The comic books, which chronicled the careers of popular musicians and at times stirred controversy, are being repackaged as graphic novels.
Bluewater Productions, a Vancouver, Wash.-based publisher best known for its extensive line of biographical comics about celebrities, politicians and historical figures, has teamed with Revolutionary Comics, originators of the rock biographies.
The 300-page THE BEATLES Experience, released in February, collects the eight original issues on the Fab Four in one bound edition. Next up is Hard Rock Heroes, out April 13, which features the stories of GUNS N' ROSES, AC/DC, BLACK SABBATH/OZZY OSBOURNE, VAN HALEN and ANTHRAX, plus 40 never-released pages on METALLICA.
Future issues will arrive on a semi-monthly basis, and PINK FLOYD (May), JOAN JETT (June), LED ZEPPELIN (July), The Seventies: A Rock Pantheon (November) and The ELVIS PRESLEY Experience (December) are scheduled. The graphic novels sell for $17.99 and sport new cover art with forewords written by music critics and artists.
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