Love Me Please! - Nicolas Finet

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Auteur(s) : Nicolas Finet

Editeur : Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 160

Expédition : 658

Dimensions : 25.6 x 19.2 x 1.7

ISBN : 9781681122762

Résumé :
Experience the life of a rock legend in comics!

Love Me Please: The Story of Janis Joplin chronicles the extraordinary journey of the iconic singer, from her childhood in post-WWII Texas to her meteoric rise and untimely death in 1970. Discover how a young, troubled woman transformed into a planetary rock icon in just five years.

Fueled by the Beat Generation and the thirst for freedom, Janis Joplin embraced the counterculture of 1960s San Francisco, defying taboos with her bisexuality, alcohol, and drug use. This graphic biography captures her spontaneous character and the worldwide movement of emancipation she embodied. Perfect for fans of music history, comics biographies, and stories of female empowerment.

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Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
Love Me Please is a biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin, which recalls, respecting the chronology, the highlights of her journey from childhood, after the Second World War, to her abrupt death in late 1970. It is one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America n the second half of the twentieth century. Yet it lasted only five years. How did a very young messed up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music? She went from the shadows to the blinding light of fame in only four records (the last one issued a month and a half after her tragic death). Thanks to a worldwide movement of emancipation which would consecrate for a long time the ideals and modes of alternative lifestyles from counterculture to the flower power generation, Janis, the ugly duckling, gave free rein to her impulses. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. She will live there a freedom of which she would hardly have dared to dream, abandoning herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, drugs, doing so not only with delight, but with the taste for excess which came naturally from her spontaneous character. A lively, fascinating story of a woman ahead of her time....