"The Book of Genesis" by R. Crumb at the Portland Art Museum

I recently read this article that claimed Portland is turning into a premier "comics town," and the latest announcement by the Portland Art Museum reaffirms this.  In June, 2010 the Museum will have an exhibition of more than 200 of the original drawings that went into R. Crumb's latest effort "The Book of Genesis."   This show, organized by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, will be on a "national tour," but the AP story only mentions LA, NY and...you guessed it, Portland, Oregon:

...the stunningly detailed, beautifully crafted black-and-white drawings that comprise its 201 pages will go on display at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum. After the exhibition closes in February it will move on to other cities, including New York and Portland, Ore.

If you haven't heard of Crumb's "Book of Genesis," or seen the art from it, there's a good review and excerpt in the June, 2009 New Yorker. If you have a digital subscription to the New Yorker you can see the article here.  Surprisingly, the story follows the Bible's book of Genesis pretty closely.  The art, however, is all Crumb.  This is the culmination of four years of work by Crumb to "illustrate every word of the fifty chapters that make up Genesis in the Bible."

You can read a review of the show in LA here, but I can't wait to see the work in person at PAM.