Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 yeah i heard about this. looks fucking awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 PARIS — Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are "totally nuts" for taking the book so seriously for so long. "I grew to hate the Bible," he told a press conference for the international launch of "Robert Crumb's Book of Genesis", which he called a "gruelling" four year project. The book hits bookshelves in late October in Europe, Brazil and the United States. "The idea of millions of people taking this so seriously is totally nuts," he added. "The Bible doesn't need to be satirised. It's already so crazy." Crumb's 220-page epic take on the Book of Genesis painstakingly mirrors every twist and turn, from God's Creation of the world through the meanderings of Noah's Ark and the adventures of Jacob of the "coat of many colours". The 66-year-old hero of underground comics who wowed the 1960s with "Fritz The Cat" and "Mr Natural", said he took up the challenge 40 years later of creating another white-haired long-bearded figure "to illuminate the text of Genesis by illustrating every single thing that's in there." Story continues below... "It hasn't been done before I think," he said. "There are hidden stories that are very strong." The lanky gray-haired Crumb, in grey suit and waistcoat for the two-hour media conference, poked fun at the Almighty hero of the book but said he had reneged his Roman Catholic upbringing to become a gnostic "on a spiritual quest". The God in his book was "very very serious, as well he should be. It's his universe," he quipped, saying he depicted him as an old-fashioned patriarch "after a powerful dream in 2000 in which I saw God and that's what he looked like." "I avoided explicit sex because I didn't want to ridicule", he said, "but you can't ever please true believers. If you're messing around with their sacred texts, they won't like it." "Perhaps someone will want to kill me," he added, referring to recent controversy over Mohammed cartoons in Demark. Crumb, who moved from the United States to southern France in the 1990s, said his interest in the Bible was tied to his longstanding passion for tales of ancient civilisations. "The Bible is not the word of God. It's the words of men," he said. "I take it all as myth from start to finish". He would never have had the patience to carry out the project during his drug-addled youth, he said. It had been an extenuating four years spent bent over a drawing-board, sketching and fixing and refixing. Hitting out at fine arts and contemporary art, which he described as sometimes being "cockamania way out there in the twilight zone," Crumb said comic-book artists were on the other side of a "grand canyon" between the two. "For some reason the world of fine arts is trying to embrace me" with offers of museum exhibitions not to mention an offer of three million dollars for the original drawings of his Genesis. "But comics are not made to be on a wall. They're supposed to be read," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 makes a great christmas present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barricade Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 who wrote the text? no one talks like that like ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 god did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Uh, so how explicit is this really? C'mon, show me some biblical cartoon-rape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awesomeperson Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 He hasn't lost it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 yeah its not biased. its word for word etc. sure crumby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr_Nova Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 That's incredible! Shit, I might actually end up reading the Bible now. I'm glad I waited for this to come along first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wall Bird Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I don't see what's so special about this. The examples shown seem pretty unremarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 well, it is what it is. the bible in comic book form, illustrated by r crumb. that to me is certainly very interesting.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 yeah. itd be like if frank zappa did covers of all of micheal jackson songs. Its just kinda interestin you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain James Mission Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 yeah. itd be like if frank zappa did covers of all of micheal jackson songs. Its just kinda interestin you know? Good Example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bar3GOzDNzg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I met Robert Crumb this weekend. He came to my little town and did a talk. Got a book signed and talked to him at our coffee shop. Hes really nice. His sister has lived here for all my life and i didnt even know it. He was visiting her and he decided to do a a talk at the local theater. I still cant believe it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 i was reading his book when he walked in the coffee shop and he said to me. "hey, that's good readin" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tht tne Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 i almost always prefer my own mental imagery over artistic interpretations of books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggs Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I met Robert Crumb this weekend. He came to my little town and did a talk. Got a book signed and talked to him at our coffee shop. Hes really nice. His sister has lived here for all my life and i didnt even know it. He was visiting her and he decided to do a a talk at the local theater. I still cant believe it i was reading his book when he walked in the coffee shop and he said to me. "hey, that's good readin" ^that is cool. i will check out this genesis book because i tried reading the bible once and... jesus christ that fucking sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 H'oh shit, I've read a lot of this in Barnes and Noble. There's some major sausage nipples on a lot of those chicks. I read something else that was really fucked up by R. Crumb. He's pretty great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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