5/26/2023 0 Comments Graphic novel johnny cashIts spin was evangelical but its narrative highlights were the same as those in I See a Darkness – Cash's impoverished childhood in the cottonfields his early loss of his devout older brother his rise to fame despite numerous booze- and amphetamine-fuelled misadventures his religious epiphany inside a cave where he'd crawled to die his tortured detox from addiction, aided by his devoted second wife, June Carter and his most celebrated concert, in front of the rowdy inmates and itchy guards, at Folsom prison. In the late 1970s, no dime store or book exchange was complete without a copy of Hello, I'm Johnny Cash, a ¢39 comic co-produced by Cash and Archie artist Al Hartley, published by Spire Christian Comics. Reinhard Kleist's Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness is vaunted as "the first and only graphic biography of one of the most famous musicians of all time". Pop culture turns history into legend with audacious speed, and sometimes the chroniclers are too young to be aware of previous attempts to turn their heroes into myths.
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