Nick Cave Gets New Graphic Novel Biography

“A chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World”
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Nick Cave is the subject of a new graphic novel biography. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, written by Reinhard Kleist, is out September 7 via First Second/SelfMadeHero. The novel covers Cave’s life from childhood through his work with the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, and features a “cast of characters drawn from Cave’s music and writing.” In a statement about the work, Nick Cave calls it a “terrifying conflation of Cave songs, biographical half-truths and complete fabulations,” adding that it is “a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World.” Watch a trailer for the book below, and pre-order it here.

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