Robert Crumb reportedly has inked the last page to his interpretation of The Book of Genesis due out by W. W. Norton this fall and going by the title, Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis. In fact, he’s completed every last bit: the cover, the intro, the commentary and a map that begins the 201 page book. We’ve gotten only a few glimpses of this project. The best is in connection with Phoebe Glockner’s photo comic report from the Angoulême comics festival in 2005 from which the above photo is taken.
The following quote from Crumb is well worth looking back on too. Art critic Robert Hughes interviewed Crumb for Time in 2005 and, after admiring Crumb for having the same distaste for Andy Warhol, gets the master to focus in what it was like to see God, so to speak:
HUGHES: Is God going to look like Mr. Natural?
CRUMB: 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.
