For a retirement gift to himself, a client commissioned me to create a new version of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover by The Beatles. With a couple of exceptions, he chose the personages.
Pictured are:
1. Godzilla 2. Beany 3. Cecil 4. Jean Shepherd 5. Charles Dickens 6. Thomas Jefferson 7. Barack Obama 8. Franklin Roosevelt 9. Abraham Lincoln 10. Langston Hughes 11. Toni Morrison 12. Emily Dickinson 13. Robby the Robot 14. Mars Attacks! 15. Invasion of the Saucer Men 16. Robert Oppenheimer 17. Don Bosco 18. Dracula 19. Batman 20. Frankenstein's Monster 21. Zacherley 22. Tim O' Brien 23. Dorothy Day 24. Mark Twain 25. Edgar Allan Poe 26. Steve Ditko 27. Spider-Man 28. Jack Kirby 29.Captain America 30. Human Torch 31. Frederic Wertham 32. Pope Francis 33. Jesus Christ 34. Santa Claus 35. M.C. Gaines 36. John Lennon 37. Ringo Starr 38. Paul McCartney 39. George Harrison 40. Truman Capote. 41. Green Lantern 42. Ringo Starr 43. John Lennon 44. George Harrison 45. Paul McCartney 46. Walt Disney 47. Mickey Mouse 48. Freddy Krueger 49. Bob Dylan 50. Wonder Woman
The original art is 21" x 21", watercolor and ink.
Note: The original album cover has Sgt. Pepper's spelled without an apostrophe.
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