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“Hair-Raising Experience” (02/12/1964)

Artist: Eddie Germano (All)

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“Hair-Raising Experience” (02/12/1964) Comic Art

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Title:	“Hair-Raising Experience” (02/12/1964)
Artist:	Eddie Germano (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	329
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	4/15/2019
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“Hair-Raising Experience” (02/12/1964)
By Eddie Germano (1924 - )
11 x 15, ink and wash on board

A native Bostonian, Germano became a full-time cartoonist in 1948, at age 24, after serving in WWII. Among other positions, he worked as the editorial and sports cartoonist for the Brockton Enterprise from 1963-1990.

The Beatles “Invasion” – the band landed in the US on Friday, February 7, 1964, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show Sunday evening, February 9. The immediate reception in the media was not positive. The New York Times called them a placebo and a fad. The Herald Tribune called them “a magic act that owed less to Britain than to Barnum,” and described the performance as “75 percent publicity, 20 percent hair, and 5 percent lilting lament.”

Germano definitely reflects the snark, here.

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Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy
Member Since 2005

Posted on 4/15/2019

A weirdly wonderful mish-mash of pop and political

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 4/15/2019

Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy wrote:

A weirdly wonderful mish-mash of pop and political

I've never seen anything quite like this, and particularly something in any way critical or sarcastic about the "British Invasion."

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