Kurt Cobain "When I was an Alien" #[nn]

A striking black-and-white portrait of Kurt Cobain mid-performance — guitar in hand, hair swept across his face, utterly lost in the music — sets the tone for this graphic biography from Urban Comics. Crafted by Danilo Deninotti and Toni Bruno, the volume takes its title from a line in Nirvana's "In Bloom," an apt frame for a life that always seemed slightly out of step with the world around it. Published in 2017, it's a thoughtful visual tribute to one of rock's most compelling and complicated figures.