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Reinhard Kleist was born near Cologne in 1970. After
studying Graphic Design at Münster University of Applied
Sciences he relocated to Berlin in 1996. There he works in
a studio that he shares with comics artists Fil, Mawil and
Andreas Michalke.
Since 1994, Kleist has had numerous comics published
by, among others, Carlsen, Ehapa, Reprodukt and Edition
52. In 1996, his graphic novel Lovecraft was awarded the
Max und Moritz prize at the Internationalen Comic-Salon,
Erlangen. In 2004 and 2005, he received ICOM prizes for
Scherbenmund and The Secrets of Coney Island. He has
also illustrated books by China Mieville, H.C. Artmann
and J.G. Ballard; record covers for Terrorgruppe and Bear
Family Records; and, on a large scale, various house
facades around Berlin.
Johnny Cash–I See a Darkness has been translated into
several languages and, in 2007, it was awarded the Peng
Munich Comics Prize, as well as the Frankfurt Book Fair
Sondermann prize. In 2008 it also received the most
prestigious German comics prize, the Max und Moritz prize.
Cover illustration © 2009 Reinhard Kleist<