Neil Young announces graphic novel

Neil Young has got a new calling: graphic novelist. The Canadian rocker has transformed his 2003 album (and subsequent film) Greendale into a graphic novel, and it will be published by DC Comics subsidiary Vertigo.

How did Neil Young realize his bubble-dialogued world? He had help. Young created the work with the help of artist Sean Murphy as well as writer Joshua Dysart (who, incidentally, wrote the Avril-Lavigne-commissioned manga Make 5 Wishes, so Young’s in good hands, clearly).

In other news, Charlie Kaufman is writing a script for a new pseudo-documentary called Being Neil Young, where a struggling graphic novelist finds a portal into the brain of a rock icon, and then slowly takes over his body.

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