Synopses & Reviews
Hilarity of Biblical Proportions!
Violence! Intrigue! Polygamy! Mass circumcision!
All this and more can be found in the latest Vertigo instant classic by Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Kyle Baker, the comics genius behind You Are Here, Why I Hate Saturn, The Cowboy Wally Show, and the Eisner Award-winning short story "Letitia Lerner Superman's Babysitter."
The familiar tale of young David's rise to unprecedented power and popularity while under the paranoid scrutiny of King Saul gets the irreverent yet biblically accurate treatment that has made Kyle Baker's work acclaimed by both fans and critics alike. Witness the sweeping tale of David, the simple farmer's son who beats the stuffing out of wild animals who would thin his father's herds! Be awed as this upstart pipsqueak faces Goliath, the Gargantua of Gath, in a no-holds-barred fight to the death! Tremble before the might of King Saul and his all-consuming jealousy!
When David survives Saul's seemingly endless attempts to have him assassinated, and Saul dies without leaving an heir, revel as the young hero ascends to the throne of Israel! Gasp at David's treacherous lust for the beautiful Bathsheba, a woman he shamelessly steals from one of his own soldiers! Will David rise to the challenges that face him who wears the crown? Or will absolute power corrupt him absolutely?
Find out here, before you read it in the Good Book!
Review
"Baker...combines gag-a-minute, pie-in-the face humor with formidable drafting chops right out of the Disney cartoon virtuoso handbook....Baker's treatment of the biblical story is funny and irreverent, and Bible study has never been so hip....Baker has produced an engaging comic adaptation of a classic tale." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Kyle Baker renders the Old Testament tale of King David in vivid, demotic language...and gorgeous cartoonish drawings that manage to amuse while never undercutting the stirring stories....Sometimes slapstick silly but always true to biblical narrative, this graphic novel is as elaborately drawn as any major-studio animated film." Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
About the Author
Kyle Baker was born in New York. He is the author of five Graphic Novels:
You Are Here,
Why I Hate Saturn,
The Cowboy Wally Show,
I Die at Midnight, and
King David. His cartoons have appeared in such publications as
The New York Times,
Esquire,
The New Yorker,
Spin,
Rolling Stone,
Vibe,
The Village Voice,
Mad,
Entertainment Weekly, and
ESPN.
For three years he illustrated the weekly strip "Bad Publicity" in New York magazine. He directed the animated music video, "Break the Chain," which aired on MTV and featured KRS-One as the voice of Big Joe Krash. The video was based on the Break the Chain comic book which Baker illustrated. He is currently writing and directing Looney Tunes theatrical shorts for Warner Brothers and is illustrating the Captain America series Truth for Marvel Comics.
He has been awarded the Harvey Award (named for Harvey Kurtzman, the creator of Mad magazine) and the Eisner Award (named for Will Eisner, creator of the Graphic Novel). They are considered to be the industry's highest honors.