NICK CAVE: MERCY ON ME (Reinhard KLEIST)

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By Reinhard Kleist
Translated from German by Michael Waaler
Published by Self Made Hero

“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. 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. 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. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, like Cave’s songs, is by turns electrifying, sentimental, morbid and comic – but always engrossing.

Reinhard Kleist is an award-winning graphic novelist best known for his graphic biographies Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, The Boxer, Castro and An Olympic Dream, all published by SelfMadeHero. He lives in Berlin.