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R crumb book of genesis10/7/2023 ![]() CRUMB: I got to do the whole soap opera of Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and Rebecca and Jacob and Rachel and all that, and all the way to the end. You know, once I got past Adam and Eve, the flood and, you know, Sodom and Gomorrah, I thought, oh, my God. But then once I got into it, I realized I had taken on a huge task. So I decided, well, this story is so interesting on many levels in and of itself and lends itself to lurid illustration, I just decided to go ahead and do it straight. I did a lot of sketches and preliminary stuff, and I wasn't satisfied with it. CRUMB: Well, I started out - for years, I was playing around with this kind of satire of Adam and Eve. ![]() Even the�ĬONAN: �layout must have taken you a long time to figure out.ĬONAN: How did you decide to do it? How did you go about it? So.ĬONAN: I was fascinated - I'm sure other people are going to call with questions about why. Because in movies, you have actors, and it's a whole other thing. And yet it's not exactly like a movie, either. And suddenly, it brings to light things that people might pass over in a - just in a written text, you know, that adding pictures is a whole other dimension. ![]() Comic books can illuminate a text, you know, break it down into panels, illustrate everything. CRUMB: Well, comic books have many possibilities, you know. There are�ĬONAN: Your definition of comic book is probably a little broader than most other people's. I'm not sure anybody would have said that before. It just stands up on its own as a lurid, you know, comic book. It doesn't need, you know, making fun of or taking off on or anything. And that's why I decided just to do a straight illustration job, because the stories themselves are so strange that it doesn't need satirizing. But these are amazing stories that are being told in the book of "Genesis." That's going to get me killed.ĬONAN: It is. CRUMB: Where is that from, that quote? Where did I say that?ĬONAN: I think that's from the news conference you had in Paris. CRUMB: And it talked - it quoted me saying something about how crazy the Bible was. CRUMB: I was listening to the little preview blurb that was told about me before, like, a few minutes ago. That's a great cover line - from Eden to Egypt. CRUMB: From Eden to Egypt - I wish I'd thought of that. It's been a long time, I realized, since I had read the book of "Genesis," and it's a wild story. ROBERT CRUMB (Comic Book Writer, Illustrator): Hey.ĬONAN: First thing I wanted to say is thank you. And it's great to have you today on TALK OF THE NATION. Crumb and "The Book of Genesis Illustrated." Robert Crumb joins us now from a studio at KQED, our member station in San Francisco. Jodi Kantor joins us to talk about her cover story on the Obamas in yesterday's New York Times Magazine.īut first, R. So with that in mind, we'd really like your questions. Email us: You can also join the conversation on our Web site. Crumb about this project, his signature style or his body of work, give us a call: 80. The approach is neither satirical nor subversive, but given the material, it's almost certain to draw charges from irreverence to blasphemy. This edition recommends adult supervision for minors. Those who remember their Bible will recall there's a lot of sex and violence in "Genesis." That's in there, too. He spent the past several years in an ambitious effort to illustrate the book of "Genesis," and he leaves nothing out, all 50 chapters from Eden to Egypt with every single begat. But his latest project may change all that. Crumb may still be best known as one of the fathers of underground comics like "Zap" and "Despair," for characters like Mr. The book was a #1 New York Times graphic novel bestseller and was nominated for three Eisner Awards. While the illustrations are graphic in places, they are, by and large, surprisingly restrained considering Crumb s edgy reputation. According to Crumb, the text is "so great and strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions." Crumb spent five years illustrating the work, and it was not serialized prior to being released in book form. Originally intending to exaggerate the text for humorous effect, Crumb ultimately decided to present the language of The Book of Genesis faithfully, using Robert Alter s 1996 translation as his primary source. In this book, Robert Crumb illustrates all 50 chapters of The Book of Genesis in his inimitable style. Includes signed print of Chapter 1 illustration of God creating the universe in fine condition. Publisher s black cloth with titles stamped in gilt to front board and spine, serpent illustration in gilt to rear board housed in publisher s black slipcase with illustration of Adam and Eve being expelled from Eden to front board. One of 250 copies signed and numbered by Crumb, this being number 18.
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