R.Crumb's Genesis

[Richard Ryan]

Wonder how long it will take the mullahs to get the Fatwah in place....

--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: R.Crumb's Genesis
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 10:30 AM
> 
> I have just learned that The New Yorker will excerpt with 
> MAYBE a cover by Crumb..............
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 9:17:38 AM
> Subject: R.Crumb's Genesis
> 
> 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."
> 
> 
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