Learn about the life of a talented musician in ‘Love Me Please’
It is a love of fun reading a graphic novel. Sometimes though they decide to take readers on a different kind of journey. When done right these can be a blast to read and tell some pretty amazing true stories. When I heard about Love Me Please I couldn’t wait to read it. I was able to get a digital copy of this graphic novel and here is my thoughts on it.
You can read the plot for Love Me Please here:
It is one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America of 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 a planetary icon of rock music in a few years? 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. There, she abandoned herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, and drugs, doing so not only with delight, but with the taste for excess which came naturally from her spontaneous character.
I had a hard time putting this graphic novel down. I had heard of Janis Joplin but knew very little about her past. This graphic novel told a new side of the story, one that wasn’t always perfect. We see a talented singer rise in a way few artists had at that time. There are good times and some tough moments as well and as this story comes to a close so does the life of this beloved singer.
Love Me Please is available now. You can order this graphic novel on Amazon and at NBM Publishing.