A decade after his suicide, kurt Cobain is still making money. Nirvana, the band for which he was the talented and troubled lead singer, continues to sell 5 million or so albums a year. The dead rock star is about to make another lucrative name for himself—as an artist. His other talent first came to light in late 2002. That's when his widow, Courtney Love, came out with Journals (Riverhead Books), which, along with his diary entries and lists, reproduced drawings. As the principal inheritor of the Cobain estate Love reportedly received a $4 million advance for the book. There's plenty more where that came from since, by one estimate, she holds up to 90% of Cobain's artistic efforts. No one knows how big that body of work is, though Cobain, who had no formal training as an artist, was a chronic doodler.
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