Nick cave mercy on me graphic novel6/5/2023 Kleist captures Cave's childhood in Australia his early years fronting The Birthday Party the sublime highs of his success with The Bad Seeds and the struggles he encountered along the way to self expression. His wide-ranging artistic output always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling.Įmploying a cast of characters drawn from Cave's music and writing, Reinhard Kleist's graphic novel, Nick Cave: Mercy On Me, paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of a formidable artist and influencer. Nick Cave Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. Closer to the truth than any biography, that's for sure! But for the record, I never killed Elisa Day. Reinhard Kleist, master graphic novelist and myth-maker has - yet again - blown apart the conventions of the graphic novel by concocting a terrifying conflation of Cave songs, biographical half-truths and complete fabulations and creating a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World.
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