A former music journalist, Jean-Michel Dupont also worked as a copywriter for advertising. His cult classic King of the Flies (with Michel Pirus) was published in the United States by Fantagraphics. Independent on Sunday About the Author An avid admirer of Robert Crumb, Mezzo is one of the most respected artists in the French graphic novel world. Review Quotes All the time that the tension builds, so too does the detail in Johnstones picture of a once-happy family ground down by sorrow.I would have been happy to read chapters and chapters more of this book. Exploring the stories and legends that surround his life and death - his childhood, his womanizing, his pact with the devil at the crossroads - Mezzo and DuPont have produced a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of this most extraordinary life. Born in the in the South in Mississippi, Johnson made his way to the urban North as a traveling musician, but it was only when he returned to the South that he recorded the twenty-nine songs, in two sessions, which would create his legacy.
Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, Robert Johnson remains one of the most iconic and mythologized figures in popular music (and the first of many to die at the age of 27). Book Synopsis From Crossroads Blues to Sweet Home Chicago, Hellhound on My Trail to Come On In My Kitchen, Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock n roll in the 1960s. Born in the in the South in Mississippi, Johnson made his way to the urban North as a traveling musician, but it was only when he returned to the South that he recorded the twenty-nine songs, in two sessions, which would create his legacy.Įxploring the stories and legends that surround his life and death - his childhood, his womanizing, his pact with the devil at the crossroads - Mezzo and DuPont have produced a fittingly creative and beautiful depiction of this most extraordinary life.About the Book First published in France in 2014 by Glenat. Beloved of Clapton, Dylan and the Stones, Robert Johnson remains one of the most iconic and mythologized figures in popular music (and the first of many to die at the age of 27). J.M Dupont (author) and Mezzo (illustrator) have done just that by creating a gorgeous and entertaining graphic novel capturing Delta bluesman Robert. From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of rock 'n' roll in the 1960s.
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