Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze

Illustrated by Tom Mandrake
Hardcover
$29.99 US
On sale Aug 27, 2024 | 128 Pages | 9781787731899
This is a pure rock and roll space opera featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix as you’ve never seen him before.

Fully sanctioned by Experience Hendrix L.L.C.; Authentic Hendrix, LLC - this is the first ever full-length graphic novel inspired by the music of the legendary Jimi Hendrix – arguably the world’s greatest guitarist.


This 21st Century psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll odyssey sees Jimi Hendrix embark on a quest to the very centre of the universe in search of a magical talisman powerful enough to unlock the incredible latent power of his music so that he can share it with a universe starved of the rock ‘n’ roll by a tyrannical intergalactic force hellbent on silencing all music from the universe and enslaving all life.
MELLOW BROWN
Mellow Brown, born & raised in Cleveland, OH, and studied at Cleveland State University, where he became a software engineer and developed the skills to help urban communities with open-source technology. Today, he is a screenwriter that has previously written for the TV series 'American Gods'.

DJ BEN HA MEEN
Writer,DJ and composer. A WGA screenwriter and proud graduate of Howard University. Benham’s knowledge of and love for the music of Jimi Hendrix is without compare.

TOM MANDRAKE, Born in 1956, Tom is a graduate of the legendary Kubert School. Tom Mandrake is an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations on Grimjack, Firestorm, The Spectre, Martian Manhunter, and Sgt. Rock for DC Comics. For Marvel Comics, Mandrake has worked on the New Mutants. He recently completed his epic American Civil War vampire epic Kros. Mandrake also drew Batman for DC, and was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. In 1992, Mandrake and writer John Ostrander launched The Spectre series at DC Comics. Following the end of this series, they moved onto a Martian Manhunter series. In 2001, he worked on the short lived series Creeps and in 2006 on the children's book The Forest King: Woodlark's Shadow. In 2007, Mandrake returned to Batman, and he also drew an X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover in 2010 which was co-written Adam Jones, the guitarist for the band Tool. Mandrake drew the DC Retroactive: Batman - The '70s, Marv Wolfman's Night Force series and he collaborated with J. Michael Straczynski on the Sidekick series in 2013–2014.

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This is a pure rock and roll space opera featuring the legendary Jimi Hendrix as you’ve never seen him before.

Fully sanctioned by Experience Hendrix L.L.C.; Authentic Hendrix, LLC - this is the first ever full-length graphic novel inspired by the music of the legendary Jimi Hendrix – arguably the world’s greatest guitarist.


This 21st Century psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll odyssey sees Jimi Hendrix embark on a quest to the very centre of the universe in search of a magical talisman powerful enough to unlock the incredible latent power of his music so that he can share it with a universe starved of the rock ‘n’ roll by a tyrannical intergalactic force hellbent on silencing all music from the universe and enslaving all life.

Author

MELLOW BROWN
Mellow Brown, born & raised in Cleveland, OH, and studied at Cleveland State University, where he became a software engineer and developed the skills to help urban communities with open-source technology. Today, he is a screenwriter that has previously written for the TV series 'American Gods'.

DJ BEN HA MEEN
Writer,DJ and composer. A WGA screenwriter and proud graduate of Howard University. Benham’s knowledge of and love for the music of Jimi Hendrix is without compare.

TOM MANDRAKE, Born in 1956, Tom is a graduate of the legendary Kubert School. Tom Mandrake is an American comic book artist, perhaps best known for his collaborations on Grimjack, Firestorm, The Spectre, Martian Manhunter, and Sgt. Rock for DC Comics. For Marvel Comics, Mandrake has worked on the New Mutants. He recently completed his epic American Civil War vampire epic Kros. Mandrake also drew Batman for DC, and was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. In 1992, Mandrake and writer John Ostrander launched The Spectre series at DC Comics. Following the end of this series, they moved onto a Martian Manhunter series. In 2001, he worked on the short lived series Creeps and in 2006 on the children's book The Forest King: Woodlark's Shadow. In 2007, Mandrake returned to Batman, and he also drew an X-Files/30 Days of Night crossover in 2010 which was co-written Adam Jones, the guitarist for the band Tool. Mandrake drew the DC Retroactive: Batman - The '70s, Marv Wolfman's Night Force series and he collaborated with J. Michael Straczynski on the Sidekick series in 2013–2014.

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