Illustrations

Crumb’s illustrations do change the story a little bit by kind of poking fun at what nowadays seem ridiculous escapades in Genesis. Adding to the story, the illustrations for me, put the stories into the terms that I look at them and that is as parables and not real-happenings. Liberties that Crumb takes with the text is one of a more playful manner, while keeping the integrity of the stories intact; he does not mock or allow his own beliefs to interfere with the story’s delicacy. Crumb’s illustrations are a little risqué no matter what time period is inflicted, for it is a religious matter and these matters have always and always will be held close to the heart by many. But today it is much more acceptable than other times, it is done with taste, yet that would be of irrelevance in past times because of how society and pop-culture was on much conservative terms not too long ago. So to pinpoint what has changed in society is acceptance; acceptance of intimate images and relations shared outside of one’s home’s walls. I feel there is irony in his illustrations whether they are intentional or not. The illustrations are what make this adaptation significant and credible as a work of literature.