R.Crumb's Genesis

[Mark Kohut]

I have just learned that The New Yorker will excerpt with 
MAYBE a cover by Crumb..............



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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/31/robert-crumb-book-genesis

The famously subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb has announced the
completion of his long-awaited take on the Book of Genesis.

The acclaimed satirist revealed on his personal website that he had
finished the project, which is out this autumn, and which his UK
publisher is predicting will "provoke the religious right". Four years
in the making, Crumb worked from the King James Bible and Robert
Alter's translation to reinterpret the Book of Genesis, from the
Creation via Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to Noah boarding his
ark.

Back in 2005 in an interview at the New York Public Library recorded
by Time magazine, Crumb, a hero of underground comics, talked about
the difficulties of drawing God for the book. "My problem was, how am
I going to draw God? Should I just draw him as a light in the sky that
has dialogue balloons coming out from it? Then I had this dream. God
came to me in this dream, only for a split second, but I saw very
clearly what he looked like. And I thought, OK, there it is, I've got
God," he told interviewer Robert Hughes, Time's art critic. "He has a
white beard but he actually ended up looking more like my father. He
has a very masculine face like my father." He had considered, he said,
drawing God as a black woman. "But if you actually read the Old
Testament he's just an old, cranky Jewish patriarch."