There's not an Earth shoe or wisecrack in sight. ( God creates the world in this excerpt.) Otherwise, this God is a somber, craggy, commanding presence. And he does - but only in that he's an old white man with a long beard. You'd expect, after all, that in Crumb's Genesis, God would look like Crumb's own iconic creation, Mr. Crumb has done a real artist's turn here - he's challenged himself and defied all expectation. It's a cartoonist's equivalent of the Sistine Chapel, and it's awesome. The illustrator writes in the introduction that he has 'faithfully reproduced every word of the original text,' and the result is 224 pages of meticulous drawings that situate Genesis in a distinct culture and place. His depiction of the Bible, I assumed, would therefore be the funniest, most subversive, most profane ever.īut, to my surprise, The Book of Genesis Illustrated is straight-faced. He's penned such infamous 'underground comics,' as Zap, Snatch, and Weirdo, and his most recent project was a book titled Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions. This oughta be good.' Crumb, after all, is the godfather of the cartoon counterculture. Crumb had illustrated the Book of Genesis, I thought: 'Oh. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.When I first heard that R. It reintroduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh. In this title, readers of every persuasion can gain fresh insights from these stories. Using clues from the text and peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured the Bible's most dramatic stories, Crumb fleshes out a parade of biblical originals- from the serpent in Eden, the humanoid reptile appearing like an alien out of a science fiction movie, to Jacob, a 'kind of depressed guy who doesn't strike you as physically courageous', and his bother, Esau, 'a rough and kick-ass guy', to God himself, 'a standard Charlton Heston-like figure with long white hair and a flowing beard'.Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of five years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling that celebrates the astonishing diversity of one of our greatest artistic geniuses. Crumb's Book of Genesis reintroduces us to the bountiful tree-lined garden of Adam and Eve, the massive ark of Noah with beasts of every kind, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by brimstone and fire, and the Egypt of the Pharaoh. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, retells the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way.Now, readers of every persuasion can gain astonishing new insights from these stories. 24:1567 and 25:1928), demonstrating how the combination of text and image acts as a commentary to the biblical narrative as well as reframing Rebekah as a matriarchal leader. Crumb (2009) as a case study which focuses on the character of Rebekah (Gen. From the Creation to the death of Joseph, here are all fifty chapters of the Book of Genesis, revealingly illustrated as never before.Envisioning the first book of the Bible like no one before him, R. Crumb’s The Book of Genesis, Illustrated by R. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Hardcover. Crumb has produced what could be the ultimate graphic novel.” “ beautifully drawn and relentlessly faithful rendition of the first 50 chapters of the Bible by an apostle of the 1960s and sometimes profane progenitor of underground comics. Susan Jane Gilman, Morning Edition, NPR By placing it squarely in the Middle East―and populating it with distinctively Semitic-looking people―Crumb makes it come alive brilliantly.” Crumb has done a real artist’s turn here―he’s challenged himself and defied all expectation. “It’s a cartoonist’s equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. stands on its own as one of this century’s most ambitious artistic adaptations of the West’s oldest continuously told story.” “To say this book is a remarkable volume or even a landmark volume in comic art is somewhat of an understatement.

The centenarian elders show every one of their years, and the women, from Eve to Rachel, are as solidly sensual as any others Crumb has so famously drawn.” His distinctive, highly rendered drawing style imparts a physicality that few other illustrated versions of this often retold chronicle have possessed. Crumb’s vivid visual characterizations of the myriad characters, pious and wicked, make the most striking impression.

Largely stripped of the sociopolitical context that has made his comics so controversial over the years, Genesis’ portraits of ancient men and women struggling to survive shows that his primary interest lies in chronicling the physical and mental experience of being human.” “The best place to witness Crumb's genius.

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