The Book of Genesis Illustrated

By R. Crumb
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393075939)

Publication Date: October 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover

Categories: Literary

Description

This eagerly awaited graphic work retells the first book of the Bible in a profoundly honest way. Peeling away the theological and scholarly interpretations that have often obscured its most dramatic stories, R. Crumb using the actual text word for word has imagined the Bible as it really was. Now, readers of every persuasion Crumb fans, comic book lovers, history buffs, and believers can gain astonishing new insights from these harrowing, visceral, and even juicy stories. Crumb s The Book of Genesis reintroduces readers to Adam and Eve s Eden, Noah s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Pharaoh s Egypt. Using clues from the text, Crumb fleshes out the parade of biblical originals: from the sensitive dreamer Joseph to the crafty Jacob, to the still-fetching Sarah, to God Himself. The result, four years in the making, is a tapestry of extraordinary detail, the finest work of Crumb s legendary career. This special signed and numbered limited edition is slipcased and includes a signed print.

'Genesis': R. Crumb Illustrates The Bible

Monday, Nov 2, 2009

Underground comic legend R. Crumb has put the entire text of the best known book of the Bible into a graphic work. In The Book of Genesis Illustrated, he depicts it all, from the creation of the world to the death of Joseph. More at NPR.org

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R. Crumb's Awesome, Affecting Take On 'Genesis'

Monday, Oct 19, 2009

The godfather of cartoon counterculture takes on the Bible in his new comic, The Book of Genesis Illustrated. Reviewer Susan Jane Gilman says R. Crumb's latest effort is serious — and brilliant. More at NPR.org

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Crumb's 'Genesis,' A Sexy Breasts-And-Knuckles Affair

Monday, Oct 19, 2009

R. Crumb, the bespectacled, gray-bearded artist who is regarded around the world as granddaddy of underground comics, has taken on what might be his biggest subject ever: the first book of the Bible. More at NPR.org

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