R. Crumb is illustrating The Book of Genesis.  An excerpt appears in this week’s New Yorker.  Here is a copyright-violating scan.  (via BoingBoing)

By the time he came to the story of Noah, though, he was annoyed. He had begun to realize, he says, that “the whole thing is a piece of patriarchal propoganda, engineered to consciously and deliberately suppress matriarchy.”

One of the best movies I have ever seen is Crumb, a documentary about R. Crumb and his two brothers.  If you have seen that film you have some context for the quote above.  I am pre-ordering my Book of Genesis now.

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