So Who is Noah?


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Tuesday, October 13, 2009


Comics Comics Correspondent Paul Karasik wrote in to note that he has discovered a startling relationship between one Biblical family, one group of knuckleheads, and a certain cartoonist. Watch this space for more revelations.

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3 Responses to “So Who is Noah?”
  1. Paul Karasik says:
    October 13, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Crumb's Noah looks very, very dimly like Ted Healy.

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  2. Jeet Heer says:
    October 13, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Yeah, R. Fiore noticed the same thing. As he commented in The Comics Journal message board: "The only thing I can see that smacks of send-up is modeling Noah’s sons on the Three Stooges (with Shemp)."

    http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=6401&start=240

    I think Crumb might have been influenced by the fact that Shem sounds like Shemp.

    I thought of the Stooges too when I first read the book but didn't pursue the parallel in my review.

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  3. Catfish Rushdie Catroons says:
    December 12, 2009 at 11:43 am

    I noticed this right away the day I got the book. Noah = Curley;
    Ham = Moe; Shem = Shemp; Japeth = Larry.
    Glad someone else picked up on it!

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