Bible Drawings

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Bible based on one side and the other is the same design, but finished with ink. The drawings were beautiful that's all I want to find who is the artist.

Bible based on one side and the other is the same design, but finished with ink. The drawings were beautiful that's all I want to find who is the artist.

I think you are talking about "Genesis" by R. Crumb

Last month, I discovered that the underground comic grotesque virtuosoBasil Wolverton produced a series of illustrations of the Bible, collected by Fantagraphics in a volume called the Bible Wolverton. Fantagraphics Books has kindly sent me a copy of the review of the book and all I can say is "Ghost Cats!

Wolverton was not only an illustrator funnybooks: he was also a member of an evangelical church called the millenarian Church of God, a sect that believes in obeying the Old Testament laws of life and the literal truth of the Apocalypse. It was therefore natural that Wolverton finished with a regular partner, paid together illustrate a series of Bible stories for children and adults published in journals of the Church as the Plain Truth, in pamphlets with titles such as prophecy and the Book of Revelation, supervised by the Church leader Herbert Armstrong, who had converted to his faith Wolverton.

Wolverton seems to have little trouble squaring his faith with his legendary designs grotesque (his famous Life Magazine for MAD spoof was so bizarre that it inspired legal threats) - he believed that secularism was secular, and could be light and strange that you wanted - but it is also clearly a believer in the gravitas of faith, as you can see from these drawings.

Wolverton and Armstrong wanted to create a series of illustrated Bible stories beyond the lime, cheerful children's books "of the day, to show the Old Testament for what it is: a book full of blood, thunder and revenge. Therefore, the illustrations of Wolverton, unique in the same style that characterizes his grotesque dots, show the loss, violence and destruction of the Old Testament through the blood and guts to honor.


The result is unlike any illustrated Bible you've ever seen. Goliath is a giant Cyclops horrible sinners drowning trying to clear a path up the ark of Noah are captured in moments flashes of terror and anguish; army of Saul tore the raw meat of slaughter, they seek to avoid starvation, the mutilated bodies of Baanah and dangle Rechab laces to Hebron heads boiled donkey out of the pot as the Israelites hungry look with hungry eyes, horned beast of Daniel crush a mountain and yelling men women that stems from the earth, and the Apocalypse, the rains of fire, flood and famine devastate cities like horribly burned victims of famine and claw their flesh to cry.

And the story of Passover, of course, holds his own treatment macabre. This Haggadah is not your grandfather's what I'm trying to say.

This is one side of Wolverton I never suspected, but is it perfectly, with humor, macabre, mad and wonderful.

From the creator of The Living Bible is a collection of 125 best loved Bible stories for children - with a picture "hidden" bonus your grandchildren will love! Young children will enjoy the beautiful illustrations and easy to understand Bible stories narrated by Kenneth N. Taylor. A dove is hiding somewhere in each picture colored. Can you bloodhounds Scripture Hawk-Eye to find it before the end of the story? Recommended for children 2 to 6.

Illustrated Dictionary of the Bible (Super Value Series) (Hardcover)
H. Lockyer, Sr. (Editor), FF Bruce (Editor), RK Harrison (Author)
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