Hello, I’m Johnny Cash

Reviews Jason Woodbury | October 27, 2026 Released 50 years ago by Spire Christian Comics and illustrated by Silver Age great Al Hartley, Hello, I’m Johnny Cash presents the trials, tribulations, and eventual redemption of the country singing Man in Black. Before his origins were revealed in book form with his 1997 memoir, Cash: The Autobiography, or on the big screen with 2005’s bio-pic Walk The Line, Cash turned to the comics medium to share his story. While only a few decades removed from being considered the lowest rung of popular culture — if not an outright moral scourge — comics represented pop art accessibility, priced to move at 39 cents a copy. Now reissued as a stand-alone, remastered floppy by Z2 Comics for Local Comic Book Day on Sept. 23, the new edition retails with a higher price point in our era, $9.99, but comes complete with a new essay by Alex Segura, an interview with Johnny’s son, John Carter Cash, and a series of new covers, including a very sharp Hartley remix by Chip Kidd. “It was fairly unusual for musicians to have licensed comic books back in the mid ‘70s,” Carter Cash says in the new back-matter. Sure, Frank Sinatra had appeared in some funny books, eve...