John Lennon manga
“Astro Boy Pocket Biography: John Lennon” is a manga (Japanese comic) about the life of John Lennon of the Beatles. It’s a children’s biography comic that I picked up in Japan, and one of my current ’scanlation’ projects. Astro Boy introduces the story.
IMPORTANT: This comic is scanned in 2-page spreads. Japanese comics are read right-to-left. In other words, follow the speech bubbles for the right page of the spread and THEN the left page in right-to-left, counter-clockwise fashion. Click the thumbnails to see larger images.
Some of the pages are in color, while others are in B&W. This is how the original work was published.
Sorry about the changes in font and style…it took me a while to find a good program for editing the images that worked fast enough.
Important Note: please do not distribute this translation for profit or without linking back to this page. This could jeopardize the future of the project. Also, please do not take any images from this page without visibly and discreetly crediting Recca Phoenix.
Last update: 8/28/08: Uploaded Q&A #1 (What Type of Place is Liverpool?). Also, I’m switching to ImageShack for file hosting for all subsequent images. This allows you to rate and comment on each individual page spread!
Sections:
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: My Wounded Heart (birth – age 5)
- Q&A: What type of place is Liverpool?
- Chapter 2: The Rebel (age 11 – 15)
(coming soon – will be in album format for easy browsing!)
- Q&A 2: What type of music is Rock n’ Roll?
- Chapter 3: Meetings and Goodbyes (age 17-21)
- Q&A 3: What is a “Live House”?
- Chapter 4: Fame – Light and Shadow (age 21-22)
- Q&A 4: Just how popular were the Beatles?
- Chapter 5: Love and Peace [the title of this chapter has both the Japanese "ai to heiwa"愛と平和 and the english "love and peace" ラブ・アンド・ピース] (age 22-40)
- John and Yoko’s Love Song: Love and Peace
- The rest of the segments are information (not really manga) on John’s friends, what was going on in the world while he was alive, and and his influence. Not really all that exciting, so I probably won’t translate them.
October 31, 2007 at 8:20 pm
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April 5, 2008 at 7:47 pm
OMG I never knew about this. Thank you for translating it!
February 21, 2009 at 6:15 pm
This is so awesome….! Which volume of Astro Boy is this in? I wanna see if I can find it somewhere…
Thanks so much for scanning, and please post more pages =)
February 21, 2009 at 9:56 pm
It’s not in a volume of Astro Boy, it’s a stand-alone paperback from the “Tetsuwan Atomu Pocket Biography” series, only available in Japan.
September 3, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Cool site, love the info.