{"id":131,"date":"2009-01-15T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2009\/01\/r-crumbs-literal-genesis-comic.html"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:45:08","slug":"r-crumbs-literal-genesis-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2009\/01\/r-crumbs-literal-genesis-comic.html","title":{"rendered":"R. Crumb&#8217;s literal Genesis comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous comic artist has been laboring over a comic retelling of Genesis for ages, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/13\/r-crumbs-book-of-gen.html\">it&#8217;s apparently coming in 2009<\/a>. Everywhere I&#8217;ve seen this mentioned on the web, people use the word &#8220;literal&#8221; to describe it, as in &#8220;it&#8217;s a literal adaptation!&#8221; I have no idea what that could possibly mean in this case, but if it&#8217;s that he simply draws the events of Genesis as they occur in the pages of Genesis&#8230;well, why wouldn&#8217;t he? Genesis is freaky, beautiful, crazy, hysterical, awesome, wild, R-Rated stuff. It doesn&#8217;t exactly need R. Crumb to give it intrigue, whatever your flannel-graph memories tell you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But in any event, I can&#8217;t wait to see it. Here&#8217;s a sneek peak (I think):<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crumbgenesis.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/197\/import\/crumbgenesis.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0 auto 20px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous comic artist has been laboring over a comic retelling of Genesis for ages, and it&#8217;s apparently coming in 2009. Everywhere I&#8217;ve seen this mentioned on the web, people use the word &#8220;literal&#8221; to describe it, as in &#8220;it&#8217;s a literal adaptation!&#8221; I have no idea what that could possibly mean in this case,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>R. 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