Love me please

This graphic-novel biography traces the life of rock singer Janis Joplin, from her childhood in the years after the Second World War to her sudden death in late 1970.

Shaped by the restless spirit of the Beat Generation and the push for personal liberation among American young people in the early 1960s, Joplin heads for San Francisco, the hub of cultural experimentation of the era. There she throws herself into every impulse and breaks the social taboos of the day, including bisexuality, alcohol and drugs. She does so with evident joy and a taste for excess that grew out of her unrestrained, spontaneous nature. The result is a lively portrait of a woman who seemed to belong to a later time than the one she lived in.