At this time Johnny Rotten spoke to Nick like “a prophet” and Nick didn’t see home as a dwelling but “the stage”. This was the rationale for Nick being elected frontman in his first musical outfit, Boys Next Door. If you don’t play an instrument then what is then your role in the band? Frontman. Kleist tells us how Nick met Mick Harvey (who would at some point be in all the musical projects Nick would undertake) and his former girlfriend Anita. 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. 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.

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