Epic duo meaning11/29/2023 Crumb is most present in Dixon’s masterfully detailed cross-hatching, and though some of his figures are roughly reminiscent of Crumb too, their anatomy is closer to Matt Groening’s The Simpsons. The style is aggressively cartoonish-down to characters’ foreheads spraying drops of plewds when anxious and bursts of emanata when literally glowing with triumph. It also literally resembles it, since Crumb is one of Kevin Dixon’s many artistic influences. Most adaptations might trim as needed, and to that degree the Dixons’ comic resembles Robert Crumb’s word-for-word adaptation of the Book of Genesis. Kent then handed his complete text to his son, comics artist Kevin Dixon, who used it as a script, interpreting and adapting freely-but also lettering every word into the graphic novel. At times poetic in form, even with an echo of pentameter (“Abundantly the guts did spill down the mountain’s slippery slope”), his rendering also emphasizes contemporary diction, calling Enkidu a “hairball” and Gilgamesh “big and bad”-and so a good fit for his target audience of undergrads and general readers. Kent Dixon originated the project with his rendition of the Babylonian text-roughly 1700 words-using the dozens of published English translations, and occasional references back to the original syllabary, to craft his own hybrid prose-verse. Though many of the tropes are familiar, and The Epic of Gilgamesh is a standard on countless college syllabi, Seven Stories Press released a first-ever comics version earlier this year-an impressive accomplishment in terms of both words and pictures. Recorded well over a century before Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the anonymously authored Gilgamesh is world literature’s first epic-detailing battles with monsters, a Bible-paralleling arc and flood, and an underworld-crossing ferryman.
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