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. Closer to the truth than any biography, that's for sure! But for the record, I never killed Elisa Day." - Nick Cave 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. By Reinhard Kleist Translated from German by Michael Waaler Release date: 7th September 2017 "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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