![]() ![]() 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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