I don't have this volume in hand yet , but I plan to soon. Yes, that icon of Lowbrow Art, R. Crumb , has published an illustrated volume based on the Biblical book of Genesis. For a number of reasons, this is tremendously exciting to me. For those who don't recognize the name "R. Crumb", this might refresh your memories: I knew from a pretty early age that R. Crumb and I were kindred spirits in a lot of ways. His description, in word and drawing, regarding his career as a school kid, made me like him right away. In high school, the cartoonist was a nerd who could not get a date. As his autobiographical drawings of his high school days illustrate, he was permanently wounded by his adolescent peers' rejection. Later I learned that, like me, he had experimented with LSD , and was a fan of female bodybuilders. So, I have a lot of reasons to be interested in the work of R. Crumb. And I love the Bible, including the book of Genesis. So, the confluence of these two