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Elvis, the King's epic

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Daniel Ichbiah publishes the illustrated biography of Elvis, 1st issue of the Pop Icons collection.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Elvis Presley told through an illustrated biography by twenty comic book authors.

This is the first book in a new collection, Pop Icons, dedicated to the biographies of the greatest icons of world pop culture.

Daniel Ichbiah, biographer of Telephone, Michael Jackson, the Beatles and the Stones looks back on the extraordinary fate of the King.

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It is a show that is both pop, blues and rock and roll that we are offering you on this music festival day.

With a legend, the 3rd best-selling artist in the world, who – 55 years after his death – finds honors on the big screen with a biopic by Baz Luhrmann with Austin Butler in the title role: “Elvis”.

The film will be released tomorrow on French screens.

But Elvis Presley is also on the cover of the first issue of "Pop Icons", a new collection by Mooks, which aims to become the reference illustrated magazine dedicated to the emblematic figures of pop culture.

300 pages, with some 80 illustrations signed by some 22 artists – notably but not only comics – and a text by

, musician, composer, rock and roll fan and biographer of the Beatles and the Stones, of Telephone and of Michael Jackson, or Madonna and George Brassens.

Daniel Ichbiah

is the guest of VMDN to tell us about the epic of the King.

Report

 head to La Villette in Paris for an exhibition that may make you grow wings unless you find it downright inflating!

On 5,000 m², the "Pop Air" exhibition offers a very colorful journey until August 21, 2022 between the aerial works of artists from all over the world.

An experience from which our reporter

 comes back to us pumped up.

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