Barnaby Legg Books

GodSpeed takes Kurt Cobain's story and plays it out as a unique graphic novel.

From the creators of The Kurt Cobain Graphic and In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel, tracing the events leading up to the death of one of modern music s most charismatic performers. Death Rap chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the notorious hip-hop superstar Tupac Shakur, the figurehead of a musical movement that came to define black culture in America and beyond.

From the luminous colours of an idyllic childhood through the flamboyant hues of success and stardom, Cobain's story inevitably declines into a much darker palette. The script draws from the singer's tortured self-image as well as straightforward biographical fact so that the tone of the book fluctuates between subjective dream-state and objective reality. Much more than a biography, Godspeed is unlike anything you have read about Kurt Cobain before. Going beyond the facts, it transmutes Cobain's extraordinary life into an equally extraordinary work of art.