--- title: Kurt Cobain Comic Book: Biography of Nirvana Lead Singer Coming Soon description: It will chronicle the guitarist's life, career and struggles, 20 years after his death canonical: https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-27T18:08:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:15.901Z og:title: Kurt Cobain Comic Book: Biography of Nirvana Lead Singer Coming Soon og:description: It will chronicle the guitarist's life, career and struggles, 20 years after his death og:url: https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d4040689da8b8b/698687a1f983e7bef204cfbd/91143082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3579 og:image:height: 2013 og:image:alt: Photo of Kurt COBAIN and NIRVANA og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kurt Cobain Comic Book: Biography of Nirvana Lead Singer Coming Soon twitter:description: It will chronicle the guitarist's life, career and struggles, 20 years after his death twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d4040689da8b8b/698687a1f983e7bef204cfbd/91143082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Kurt Cobain Comic Book Is Coming > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 6:08 PM UTC  ITALY - FEBRUARY 21: Photo of Kurt COBAIN and NIRVANA; Kurt Cobain performing live onstage at Palasport, Modena (Photo by Raffaella Cavalieri/Redferns) ITALY - FEBRUARY 21: Photo of Kurt COBAIN and NIRVANA; Kurt Cobain performing live onstage at Palasport, Modena (Photo by Raffaella Cavalieri/Redferns) Raffaella Cavalieri / Redferns/ Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 27, 2014 6:08 PM UTC The story of Kurt Cobain’s rise to fame and his struggles with addiction and depression will be chronicled in a new comic book. The illustrated story of the Nirvana frontman will be released April 2, the _Hollywood Reporter_[ reports](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kurt-cobain-gets-comic-book-691462). That’s just a few days before the 20th anniversary of his alleged suicide. It will be available in both print and digital form and is part of Blue Water Productions’ “Tribute” series, which has already featured the stories of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Keith Richards. “Not only is this a great way to understand the importance of his contribution to music, but it is a great tool for kids to read about him in a different medium,” Bluewater publisher Darren G. Davis told the _Hollywood Reporter_. “Our biography comic books are now taught in schools and libraries for students and reluctant readers.” You can take a sneak peek at some of the pages of _Tribute: Kurt Cobain_ and pre-order it [Comic Flea Market](http://www.comicfleamarket.com/servlet/the-625/Tribute-cln--Kurt-Cobain/Detail). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/"},"headline":"A Kurt Cobain Comic Book Is Coming","datePublished":"2014-03-27T18:08:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:15.901Z","description":"It will chronicle the guitarist's life, career and struggles, 20 years after his death","url":"https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Books","celebrity","nirvana","Kurt Cobain","comic books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d4040689da8b8b/698687a1f983e7bef204cfbd/91143082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc9d4040689da8b8b/698687a1f983e7bef204cfbd/91143082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Photo of Kurt COBAIN and NIRVANA","caption":"Photo of Kurt COBAIN and NIRVANA","creditText":"Raffaella Cavalieri / Redferns/ Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/40454/kurt-cobain-comic-book/","name":"A Kurt Cobain Comic Book Is Coming"}}]}] ```