Kleist uses his dark and striking illustrations to help bring out emotions such as dread, desperation, persistence, and revelation as they witness Cave’s life and long career, from his huge-hair and heroin days with The Birthday Party to his more polished yet still antagonistic times with The Bad Seeds. Read/listen to it here.įrom his origins growing up in Australia glued to The Johnny Cash Show, to his days with The Birthday Party and later The Bad Seeds-author and illustrator Reinhard Kleist has left no stone unturned when it comes to his exploration of Nick Cave’s life in his new graphic novel, Nick Cave: Mercy on Me. Nick Cave ruminates on God during a broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Religious Services in 1996. I was a conduit for a God that spoke in a language written in bile and puke. “Though I had no notion of that then, God was talking not just to me but through me, and His breath stank. “Floods, fire, and frogs leapt out of my throat,” he explained. An illustration by Reinhard Kleist from his new graphic novel, ‘Nick Cave: Mercy on Me.’
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