Mercy On Me: Graphic novel depicts the life of Nick Cave in comic form

A graphic biography, which Cave himself has endorsed: “[Kleist] 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”.

Employing a cast of characters drawn from Cave’s music and writing, the book paints an expressive, enthralling portrait of a formidable artist and influencer. 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 crippling lows of his battle with heroin.

Award-winning artist Kleist is the author of critically acclaimed graphic biographies of Johnny Cash (Johnny Cash: I See In Darkness), Holocaust survivor and champion boxer Harry Haft (The Boxer), Fidel Castro (Castro) and Somali athlete Samia Yusuf Omar (An Olympic Dream).

Nick Cave: Mercy On Me is published in paperback on 7 September by SelfMadeHero. The creation and development of the project has been documented by Reinhard Kleist on www.nickcave-com.

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