Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, like Cave's songs, is by turns electrifying, sentimental, morbid and comic - but always engrossing. 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. While I was studying, I worked on the two books Lovecraft and Dorian. Employing 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. I was born in 1970 near Cologne and studied at the school for Graphic and Design in Mnster, where I graduated with the silk screen album Abenteuer eines Weichenstellers by the author H.C.Artmann. And in fact some elements here quite deliberately, I would think echo parts of his approach to that earlier work on the Man in Black. His wide-ranging artistic output always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling. Nick Cave seems like a perfect match for Kleist’s approach to graphic biography, much like Cash. Closer to the truth than any biography, that's for sure! But for the record, I never killed Elisa Day." - Nick Cave Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. "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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