IP: "Freely"
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 09:00 PM CST
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By Ian Punnett
An illustrated book of the Bible is on the graphic novel Top 20 bestseller list. If that isn’t incredible enough, the graphic novel version of the book of “Genesis” is by Robert Crumb, the grandfather of the underground comics movement, the creator of “Mr. Natural” and the immortal--for better or worse--the ”Keep on Truckin’ Guy.”
Even amongst his fans, R. Crumb is an odd, controversial man and not the first person who comes to mind when it comes to making a graphic novel out of The Book of Genesis debuted at #9 in the Top 20 list of adult graphic novels in bookstores for September, according to the report from Nielsen BookScan. I bought it today after I went to my local “Fall Con” comic book convention not knowing what to expect.
It’s fascinating. Despite the warning on the cover, The Book of Genesis is not any more filled with nudity, sex or violence than the original source material and not even as graphic as Renaissance era art.
Surprisingly, R. Crumb’s Genesis is oddly tame--certainly by contrast with a new artist I discovered today, Ant Lucia’s “Spookshow Pin-up” poster art.
www.spookshowpinups.com/
Are you psyched for Halloween yet?
If you’re not dressing up, have you considered the possibilities waiting for you in your local pumpkin patch?
This is great pumpkin carving I have seen so far. Warning, the following contains Jack-O-Lantern entrails:
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So be ready. As you can tell by the snow on my patio this morning, summer is over and Halloween cannot be far behind!
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