Robert Crumb, famed illustrator and underground comix pioneer, has a new project: The Book of Genesis Illustrated, which covers the first 50 chapters of the bible. An article by David Colton in USA Today on Oct. 19, 2009, reviews the book and provides background information. In the article, Crumb reports that "It was hard to draw God.""Should God just be a bright light? Should I use word balloons? Should God be a woman?" Crumb says the answer came to him in a dream.
"I ended up with the old stereotypical Charlton Heston kind of God, long beard, very masculine. I used a lot of white-out, a lot of corrections when I tried to draw God."
"I got totally sick of it by the end of it. I've come out exhausted," Crumb says.
"I may never draw again."
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