Prince in Comics! - (Nbm Comics Biographies) by Nicolas Finet & Tony Lourenco (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like " 1999" or " Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world. Here is his extraordinary destiny in a mix of colorfully illustrated articles and comics!"--Amazon.

Book Synopsis

Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like " 1999" or " Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world. Here is his extraordinary destiny in a mix of colorfully illustrated articles and comics!

Review Quotes

"Prince in Comics is an astoundingly readable, beautifully rendered treasure for narrative art and music fans alike: one to resonate with anybody who wants to listen and look. If you love pop history and crave graphic escape, this will truly rock you." --Win Wiacek, Comics Reviews

"...an excellent recounting of the mystique of Prince..." -- Sequential Tart Review

"Prince fans ...[will] treasure the reminders of how the genius operated." --Library Journal

"Prince in Comics! is a must for the legions of dedicated Prince fans." --James A. Cox, Midwest Book Reviews

"A great addition to the bookshelves of longtime fans, not only because some of these stories bear repetition as a reminder of how unique Prince was, but because graphic biographies like these serve as a great kick-off point for new generations of listeners curious about why he continues to be a towering figure in popular culture." --Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier

"NBM have a winning series via translating French biographies about the biggest stars of the rock era... Prince as a subject provides one of the best biographies in this series to date." --Frank Plowright, Slings and Arrows

"Finet and Lourenço's biography is a love letter to Prince and a glowing decade-by-decade celebration of a larger-than-life icon through the eyes of the musicians, lovers, and business acquaintances who knew him best." --Booklist Reviews

"Prince in Comics! is a fascinating pictorial profile of a prodigious talent--the artist forever known as Prince."--Foreword Reviews

About the Author

Nicolas Finet, author, publisher, filmmaker, journalist, curator, speaker, translator, has worked in comics for more than three decades. He is the author of more than half a dozen reference works on it. In music, he is the writer on NBM's recent bio of Janis Joplin Love Me Please and he has just made a documentary on the blues and comics, Mississippi Ramblin, devoted to bluesman Robert Johnson. He is also the writer of the graphic novel Forever Woodstock. Born in Paris in 1976, Tony Lourenço alias Nyt has been exploring and expressing his artistic sensibility for a long time. He did this first through singing and piano at the Paris International Conservatory of Music, then, seduced by imagery, he created a photo studio in a Parisian barge. At the same time, he paints and writes short stories, scenarios, tales and travelogues.