AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.

Robert Crumb set to publish 'scandalous satire' of the Book of Genesis.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| March 31, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Guardian Unlimited)

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, …

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Robert Crumb explores the Bible's dark side in comic book Genesis.
News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 22, 2009 700+ words
Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters, 1958-1977.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Culture Parille, Ken September 22, 2000 700+ words
Hero of the counter-culture.(Robert Crumb--A Chronicle of Modern...
Magazine article from: The Spectator Lambirth, Andrew April 16, 2005 700+ words
Art Books' Future Now: Unique (and Pricey) Object Status Helps Art Books...
Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Miller, James H. March 25, 2013 700+ words
Wayzgoose Comics: How comic books have seen off their arch-enemies.
Magazine article from: Print Week July 29, 2011 700+ words
©2013 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions

The AccessMyLibrary advertising network includes: womensforum.com GlamFamily