judging solely on the artwork, it’s great, and had it just been a tale of nick cave being confronted by euchrid eucrow or elisa day etc, i think i would have loved it - mostly because kleist imagines euchrid to very closely resemble gollum, which is delightful. It might be my own lack of interest in hagiography, which is just as bad to me as bios that tear down the heroic gauze. i don’t know how much cave contributed to this project (other than a backcover blurb), or how much kleist made up or drew from the nick cave mythos, but the end result is kind of uneven. if anything, the bios i’ve read have made me realize he was less of a douche than his legacy.īut i figured this one would be cooler, because it's in graphic novel format, and it's a mixture of biography and fantasy, in which nick cave interacts with characters from his own songs and novels, many of which are (rightfully) displeased with what he’s put them through. okay, that’s an exception, because it’s hard for byron to fall from grace when the bar is set so low. it’s always kind of a letdown - you learn about all the times they were a jerk, or about all the ways in which they were dull, or about all the ways in which they were…byron. Someday i will learn not to read biographies of people i admire.
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