La Genèse #[nn]

Robert Crumb brings his unmistakable crosshatched linework to the Book of Genesis in this French-language Denoël Graphic edition, La Genèse. The cover sets the tone immediately: a towering, white-bearded divine figure looms over a nude man and woman who stand hand-in-hand against a radiating backdrop — rendered with the dense, earthy draftsmanship that makes Crumb's adaptation so striking. Published in 2009, this is a serious, meticulously illustrated encounter between one of underground comics' most distinctive artists and one of humanity's oldest texts.