Baby's in Black #[nn]

Arne Bellstorf's *Baby's in Black* is a graphic novel from First Second that centers on Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and the Beatles — a story The Huffington Post called "the Beatles as you've never seen them." The stark black-and-white cover, with its bold hand-lettered title painted in white brushstrokes against deep black, sets a mood that feels at once raw and intimate, perfectly suited to the Hamburg underground scene of the early 1960s. With Bellstorf handling art, inking, and lettering entirely on his own, this 2014 volume carries a singular creative voice from first page to last.