Dennis Jones

Here is yet another attempt I made at doing a Bible Comic back in my gouache days. This time I decided to include every jot and tittle of the Biblical text. After a chapter and a half I was toast… and so was my latest endeavor at accomplishing this idea.

Several years ago, my goal in life was to do Bible stories in comic book form. I hoped for someone to magically show up and write them for me, but that never seemed to happened… so I decided to do it myself. I made several attempts and this story of Gideon is one of them.  After two pages I looked at it critically, decided that perhaps it was headed in the wrong direction and it died a horrible death in a folder on my computer… only to be resurrected today in all its glory on this fabulous blog post…

I just ran across this old piece of art tucked away in a folder on my computer. It was the cover to a book proposal I pitched to a big publisher about six years ago. Manga (art plus pictures, basically a comic book) was just starting to become popular in the states. I decided that I wanted to do the entire Bible in this fashion or some portion of it. The publisher liked the idea, but decided it was just too big to be feasible. I believe they were probably right on that, because if they would have agreed to my book proposal I would probably still be trying to get Genesis done today, six years later.