R. Crumb Finishes His Genesis Project
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In recent R. Crumb news, apparently he has finished the Genesis project. It’s 201 pages. He has also finished the Cover, the Introduction, the commentary (for the back sleeve) as well as the Map, which will be in the beginning of the book. The book is soon going to production, planned for a fall release this year.
More Information on R. Crumb and the Genesis Project
According to an interview in Time magazine with Crumb, the genesis of the Genesis Project are simple. “I was fooling around with Adam and Eve one day. Doodling about Adam and Eve. At first I did this satirical take off on Adam and Eve — lots of jokey asides and Jewish slang because they’re Jewish right? God is Jewish.”
When asked if God himself would look anything like Mr. Natural of the old Zap comic days, Crumb says, “Nah. He has a white beard but he actually ended up looking more like my father. He has a very masculine face like my father. 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.”
So the Genesis Project is just that — a comic rendition in the style of R. Crumb, of the very first book of the Bible, long anticipated and due out now this fall.
Post Copyright 2009 Matty Byloos
I was a big fan back in the day… looking forward to checking this out!
Comment by Portland Roofer — April 3, 2009 @ 6:55 am
I grew up with the News and Journal comics and even though my dryingup quick-recall memory reflects my 87 years I can still remember Segar and Harold Grey and Moon Mullins and Nancy, and not just Krazy and never mind my misspellings. As I went into art and literature as a college professor I simply knew that the Iliad or Oedipus Rex, let alone the Five Books of M. had to b e rendered by what the French call panel drawings, even as one could foresee The Spirit doing in the early forties what the movies were too reactionary to do until maybe the sixties. S, of course R.Crumb’s perfect for Genesis. The photograph, moving photos, can never without doctoring or digitizing get rid of dead naturalism. The photograph represents a stillness in time that simply doesn’t exist.I just got the latest New Yorker. R. Crumb the uncanny is perfect for the kind of image that combines the inextricable literal and the visionary, which is essence of Torah and its Jewish God.
Comment by Irving Weiss — June 3, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
Awexome comment, Irving! Thanks for dropping by, and when you get Crumb’s book, consider coming back and leaving a review!
Comment by Matty — June 4, 2009 @ 5:44 am