Few biblical scholarsrnwould have made R. Crumb-the counterculture cartoon-ist famous for creating Fritzrnthe Cat-their top choice for reinterpreting the first book of the Pentateuch. And few among Crumb's cult following would have elected that he spend four of his creative years drawing pictures to go with Sarah Palin's favorite bedside reading. Yet the weird, obsessive, oversexed artist's 224-page pictorial interpretation of Genesis, which came out Oct. 19, has shot up best-seller lists: as of this writing, it's No. 1 on the New York Times graphic-books bestseller list and No. 2 on Amazon.com's Christian-books list, which is something of a crossover achievement.
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