Kleist reveals that there is much more to this highly intelligent young man (who doesn’t stick to the rules) than reckless endeavours. The reader is then acquainted with an adolescent Nick whose antics include, but not limited to, narrowly escaping death by almost colliding with an oncoming train. Closer (despite “biographical half-truths and complete fabrications”) to the truth than any biography that’s for sure!” With the thirtieth anniversary of Nick Cave’s Tender Prey album (which includes the classic The Mercy Seat covered by Johnny Cash) there is no better time to examine, analyse and celebrate the career of Nick Cave.Īs with I See a Darkness, Kleist introduces the graphic novel referencing a well-known song by the artist with deft illustrations, the song of choice is The Hammer Song from Nick Cave’s sixth album, The Good Son.

Cave himself endorses this graphic novel, describing Mercy on Me as “a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World. Kleist, across five chapters, without censorship, tells the story of Nick Cave, beginning with Cave as “a show-off and an arsehole” teenager at school in Warracknabeal, Australia to date. XS Noize has once again teamed up with SelfMadeHero to bring you Kleist’s latest graphic novel about the even less ordinary Nick Cave in Mercy on Me. Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, like Cave's songs, is by turns electrifying, sentimental, morbid and comic - but always engrossing.In June 2018, courtesy of SelfMadeHero, XS Noize guided readers through the less ordinary life of Johnny Cash as told by Reinhard Kleist in his unique graphic novel: I See a Darkness. 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. His wide-ranging artistic output always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling.Įmploying 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. Nick Cave Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. Closer to the truth than any biography, that's for sure! But for the record, I never killed Elisa Day. 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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