Mike McCready is Pearl Jam’s founding member and a guitarist who is now venturing into other art forms. First on McCready’s menu is a new graphic novel, Farewell to Seasons, being created in cooperation with Z2 comics. It was written with Mark Sable and illustrated by Sebastián Piriz, with cover art by Kikuo Johnson.
The synopsis says:
“McCready’s story captures the drive and sense of community that forged the powerful backbone of the Seattle music scene of the 1980s, as their world changed forever with the explosion of grunge in the ‘90s. Farewell to Seasons unflinchingly shows the brutal cost it had for so many artists and musicians as it captures the lived experience of that seminal era. The glory and the heartbreak as it asks the unanswerable question… was it worth it?”
But that is not all. Along with the graphic novel, as McCready say, a rock opera is being prepared too: “It’s a story I’ve been developing for many years, inspired by the creativity, community, and chaos of the Seattle music scene,” McCready says. “Farewell to Seasons is a historical fantasy set in that world, and alongside the graphic novel, there will also be a ‘lost’ rock opera connected to the story, featuring original music written from the perspective of David Williams, one of the main characters. I’ve had a great time bringing this project to life with Z2, and I hope people enjoy the journey as much as I did creating it.”
The rock opera comes with deluxe editions of the graphic novel, and we have a version with an exclusive “Poltergeist” vinyl variant.
