![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So in one sense, Bowie’s Stardust Year’s feels at times like a traditional classic rock biopic, the story of a genius catching lightning in the bottle and using it to fuel his rise. There’s a definite arc to this story, starting with a struggling, more human Bowie before he has found the Ziggy Stardust persona within him. In this book, Bowie and Ziggy sort of occupy equal spaces, feeling almost like separate entities, united for the good of them both. Unauthorized by the Bowie Estate or anyone affiliated with it, this new book is perhaps the most artful approach to chronicling Bowie, going more abstract with the way it tells the story of Bowie and his relationship with his Ziggy Stardust persona. The most recent is Reinhard Kleist’s Starman - Bowie’s Stardust Years, out this month from publisher SelfMadeHero. There was 2020’s Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams, and there was 2022’s The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Official Movie Adaptation(itself an adaptation of a novel). As such, Bowie has been the subject of many books and graphic novels, several in recent years. A history of colorful outfits, a striking personage, a list of alter-egos, neatly divided eras of his career, an outsized reputation, and the list goes on and on. I’ve written about this before, but David Bowie has many things in common with a comic book character. Coloring: Thomas Gilke and Reinhard Kleist ![]()
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