Kobain Comic Book Hits the Shelves
by Richelle Chuatuan | 00.00.0000

Grunge-heads still in denial about the end of the '90s have a reason to celebrate (and maybe even take a shower)--a new graphic novel about Kurt Cobain's life has been released, nearly a decade after his suicide. Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic was put together by Barnaby Legg, Jim McCarthy and comic book writer/illustrator Flameboy as another way of helping Cobain's fans celebrate his legacy and look past his untimely death.

The book combines biographical fact with a bit of fiction (perhaps it'll give readers a nice version of Courtney Love?), and chronicles everything from Cobain's childhood and Nirvana's rise to fame to the tortured frontman's suicide in 1994. The cover features a beefier-looking Cobain with angel wings, which should incite curiosity as to what his Nirvana bandmates Dave Grohl and Krist Novaselic's cartoon alter-egos look like (one can only hope that they'll be clad in skin-baring leather loincloths). The novel is one of several books that published since Cobain's death, proving that Tupac isn't the only one from the '90s still churning out the goods postmortem and generating more press than many of the artists who made it through that awkward decade.