the bible

Writer Mark Russell and cartoonist Shannon Wheeler hope to bring readers the very best Bible stories that didn't make it into the Bible (or perhaps just lost something in translation) in their informative but disrespectful adaptation Apocrypha Now, the follow up to their previous Biblical adaptation, God is Disappointed in You. Published by Top Shelf, the book features Russell's prose accompanied by Wheeler's New Yorker-esque cartoons, and we have an exclusive preview of their take on the destruction of Sodom.

An Israeli ambassador to Japan was disturbed to discover that manga publisher East Press had produced a comic book adaptation of Mein Kampf, the 1945 autobiography-cum-manifesto of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Part of a series of adaptations of historically or culturally significant works including Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species, the Mein Kampf manga quite naturall

In what might be the most audacious plot-hole-filling of all time (unless you count the last-minute epilogue to ABC's Lost), comic book creator Rob Liefeld is picking up a forgotten but, in this case, hilariously unresolved thread from The Bible in his new webcomic, Zombie Jesus...

We've seen intersections between comics and the Bible numerous times before, most recently in the "Green Lantern" storyline that united much of the Old Testament with the history of the Lantern emotional spectrum and brought the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, and Noah's flood squarely into DC Universe continuity...

Robert Crumb's illustrated version of the "Book of Genesis" is out, and it's incredible, and guess who's upset about it. Christians! The amazing part about this particular controversy is that instead of getting up in arms about comics with gay people in them or Japanese cartoons with comedic nudity, they're actually upset with the Bible, and it is blowing my mind...