johnny cash i see a darkness graphic novel

'He's also concerned about the main theme of the book, which is freedom, to struggle to freedom. 'Glen Sherley helped me a lot to tell the story in that he's also involved in the story, he's not somebody from the outside,' the author said. Kleist tells the concert's tale through the perspective of Folsom inmate Glen Sherley, an actual prisoner, to mirror the singer's figurative cages. I could have done like they did in the movie, where there's just a short sequence of the concert, but I wanted to tell the whole story of the concert.' I think the Folsom Prison concert was one of the most exciting concerts in the history of music, so that was an idea I wanted to put into the book in a large sequence. 'And also, at the end of the book, I have a long sequence where I'm telling the Folsom Prison concert, an idea about how to show music as an adventure, something with tension and suspense in it. 'The idea to illustrate some of his songs as short stories was the result of the first idea, the idea of making music visible in a comic book,' he said. Pages from 'I See a Darkness'The original concept developed with Carlsen Verlag still influenced the shape of 'Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness,' as the book includes Kleist's illustrations of several Cash songs, including 'Folsom Prison Blues,' 'A Boy Named Sue,' and others.

But when I finished the book, I was absolutely convinced.'

I thought, pff, I'll read it, but it's not the stuff that I'm looking for. 'I thought that a book about a country musician would not be so exciting. 'Later on, I came across a biography of Johnny Cash because a friend of mine gave me the book by Franz Dobler ,' Kleist said. Kleist told CBR that the book originated not as a story about Johnny Cash, but from a discussion with his German publisher, Carlsen Verlag, about creating visual representations of music in comics. 'But with the American Recordings, I was really amazed by them because they were so intense.' Before that, I just knew a few songs like 'Ring of Fire' and 'A Boy Named Sue' and things like that you would sometimes hear on the radio,' the artist said.

'The first time I was really aware of listening to his music was when the American recordings came out a few years ago. ' I still remember a picture of Johnny Cash somewhere in our house, and he was wearing black and I thought he was kind of cool. 'My dad had one record,' Kleist said of his earliest memories of Cash.

Johnny cash i see a darkness graphic novel