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us and exaggerate the sordidness, the primitivism and the outright strangeness" found in the Bible—the depictions of sex are explicit, but not gratuitous. In his introduction to the book, Crumb writes he has "faithfully reproduced every word of the original text," each word hand-lettered. The book's cover contains the warning, "Adult Supervision Recommended for Minors".
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Given Crumb's past body of work, and his professed rejection of religion, many assumed when the book was announced that it would be a satire or otherwise profane or subversive send-up, and were surprised or disappointed to find it "straight-faced". Crumb "resist the temptation to go all-out Crumb on
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was exhibited at the 55th International Venice Art Biennale. Each page of the graphic novel was individually exhibited in uniformed black frames. The audience was invited to follow the sequential images through the large exhibition space; blurring the lines between subversive low-brow comic arts and
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drawing style, Crumb avoided doing a satirical or psychedelic take on the work, as would have been expected. Reviewers have called the style "humanizing", with a "human-looking deity" with "enormous, hairy, veiny hands"; unlike much later Christian art, which Europeanized the characters from the
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and it limits the sales. I’ve done my share of explicit sexual drawings, as anybody who knows my work can certainly attest. I just decided it wasn’t really necessary."
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Many reviewers found it surprising that Crumb kept the depictions of sex "tame", given that he is so well known for his explicit depictions of sex.
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described in the text itself. In critical circles, it has drawn fire over whether and how literal the illustration job is, or should be.
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Crumb also was given a huge stock of visual source material by a friend, who made freeze-fame images from Hollywood biblical epics.
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for spiritual guidance, but finds the Book of Genesis to be "much too primitive" to find any spiritual meaning in it.
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movies, as "there's not a lot of documentation about how people dressed and lived in ancient Mesopotamia."
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The book took over four years for Crumb to finish. Holed up in a shepherd's hut in the south of
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on October 19, 2009, in book form—the book was never serialized prior to being published.
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wrote "Robert Crumb is probably the world's greatest living cartoonist, and his
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The book has been controversial, particularly for the explicit illustrations of
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https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2013/introduction-massimiliano-gioni
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The clothing and sets in the book were based on stills from classic
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from 1996, although he referred to other sources, including the
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that purports to be a faithful, literal illustration of the
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R. Crumb's 2009 comic adaptation of the Book of Genesis
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Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World
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The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead
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