I am not sure at what age I started identifying the Bible as a brick volume of thin pages filled with two columns of small type. This is what it is, isn't it? Generally speaking, the Bibles that I have owned all looked almost the same - whatever the language. Medieval Bibles, of course, are in a completely different class - and that is not only for the quirk in the margins and fantasy monsters in the borders.
Here is 12th century manuscript
Bible of Stephen Harding . Folio 13 features the story in a format of
a comic. I have not managed to find out much about the manuscript - it is held at Bibliothèque municipale de Dijon and some scanned folios can be found
HERE.
Here are some more recent renditions of the Bible as a comic.
Manga Bible - a spectacular publication of the best manga drawing.
A five-volume manga series based on the Christian Bible
created under the direction of the non-profit organization Next, a
group formed by people from the manga industry. Though first published
in English, the books are originally written in Japanese and each volume
is illustrated by a Japanese manga artist. Each book is adapted from the Bible by Hidenori Kumai.
And then there are some comics.
A few are rather edgy/risque/fresh, while the others are roughly interchangeable (to my comic-untrained-eye) that use the same style as all those other Christian books promoted in the windows of the Christian booksellers.
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by Robert Crumb (very restrained!)
Nominated for three 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
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by Nestor Redondo - DC Comics (1975)
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by Nestor Redondo - DC Comics (1975)
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by Jeff Anderson and Mike Maddox
(resembles DK encyclopaedia, unfortunately) |
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by Sergio Cariello
(whatever the reviewers may say, it still looks like the cover has been designed
by somebody who spent too much time in the Christian bookshops
- and who loves Photoshop as himself) |
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"This action-packed rendition of the world's most awesome story
will capture and draw you into all the excitement" |
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by Silver Dolphin Books (looks interchangeable with many others) |
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