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Check out R. Crumb’s “illustrated Book of Genesis”. I thought for sure it was going to be a spoof or parody. Nope, he plays it straight and it’s even creepier

• bravura 4y ago
  His illustrations make it enjoyable to read 30 men who beget each other in turn, or what look like endless log statements of various valuables, like 50 oxen, 30 gold ingots, 50 calfs, &cetera https://theslingsandarrows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Book-of-Genesis-int.jpg https://theslingsandarrows.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Th...
• aidenn0 4y ago
  My wife went to seminary and that was on a recommended reading list for one class; maybe the only time she borrowed a book from me for school.
• vintermann 4y ago
  As I recall, he started out intending to satirize it, then decided that no, this is just so grand and alien that it was better to just let it speak for itself. It's a good match for Crumb. There's a lot of naked Id in Genesis, and of course a lot of shapely women and intense bearded men. The thing he did on Kafka, and the one on Philip K. Dick, were good in the same way. Crumb is well placed to understand those guys in ways most of us (fortunately, really) aren't.