Jack Lynn Alexandar Stuff |
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BEHIND THE SCENES: The project started out as a possible idea for a graphic novel planned for some point in the future. The more I thought about it, the more ideas began to rush into my mind. I only intended originally to write them down so I wouldn't forget them. The next thing I knew, I had a script. Figured I might as well go with it and revisit it later. The publisher I settled on expressly forbade the submitting of scripts. So, I novelized it. Did the map on the homepage myself from a digital atlas. The background is a sample from the book jacket. I took the sample and doubled it horizontally, flipped it and put the edges together then again vertically so it could be tiled without a noticeable seam. The tile function picks it up from there, theoretically, infinitely. The dressing around the book icon was scanned from a picture of Medieval illumination in the Gutenberg Bible. I would hope that no one would get offended but that's a pipe dream. If anyone does, I hope everyone does. That's my interpretation of the anti-discrimination laws. Either, no one is offended (which is impossible) or you piss off everybody equally. Legally, there's no middle ground. The threat of someone being offended spawned a line in the story of Moses. God is dictating the dietary laws to which Moses replies, “that sure beats a diet of worms”. The Diet of Worms in Worms, Germany was the call from Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to Martin Luther to account for his public pronouncements of certain Catholic beliefs and practices. It was The Edict of Worms (May 1521) that officially labelled Martin Luther a heretic and outlaw (which could be killed without punishment) and gave fuel to the Protestant Reformation. Considering I was working from a Protestant Bible, that's what you call "irony". By the way, yes, I'm Protestant. The rattling off of the geneaology was inspired by John Huston's "In The Beginning: The Bible" where Isaac is asked to read it off Abraham's staff. After rewatching it more recently, that's probably from where framing certain Canaanites the Hebrews fought with as their "Injuns" came. There's a scene where an army comes swarming in for an attack on a walled city whooping and hollering as they go. Looked for all the world like an Indian attack on a fort. My conceptualization of Abraham was a combination of George C. Scott's portrayal in "In The Beginning: The Bible" and his role in "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb". "In The Beginning: The Bible", also, figures into the scene of Hagar and Ishmael after they have been expelled by Abraham. In the Bible, they are directed to a well. In the movie, the water springs from the ground. “Mokie hokie” is probably the only line of gibberish in the computer video game "The Sims" that can be directly translated into english. It's spoken after they finish brushing their teeth. "Egypt?", according to an online German friend, is something they say where she is instead of "what?" or "huh?". Started out as a little yank of her chain in the story of Noah then I went with it. The hints of an emerging Southern American lifestyle began with the rewriting of the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme for the story of Abraham. It sort of went downhill from there. I currently have plans for other religious and secular works including the Qurán, The Book of Mormon and American History. It will probably work out better having given my own holy book the treatment first. Although, in some cases, that's probably just a pipe dream, too. If you think volume I is short, it had to end where it did. There is a natural division there. Before, it's more primeval. After come Samson, David, Jesus, etc. All in Canaan. I wasn't sure how long the total project would become so I opted to end volume I with the death of Moses. "Not Quite Bible Stories" Vol. II Samson is really a woman on steroids. I got the idea after seeing a documentary about a female bodybuilder who sounded much like a guy and looked for all the world from some angles like Roger Daltrey of The Who. Notice that Samson never had kids. ;) It wasn't for lack of trying. His wife must have been barren. ' Nuff said there. |