The Comic Book Bible

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Kingstone donates its popular products to prisons and juvenile centres. Some prisoners and chaplains have written to thank them, saying they are the most requested and passed-around products in the prison. Prisoners’ blood was used to save Art’s life; he now gets to share with prisoners about the blood of Jesus, which can truly save their lives, eternally.

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I was really inspired by The Chosen TV show, and I would really like to create a comic book or an original graphic novel which relates the stories contained within the Bible in a manner which is also a genuinely high-quality creative work. https://kingstonecomics.com/collections/animated-comics/products/the-christ-1-the-prophecy-animated-comic Art makes sure a biblical worldview underpins everything they create at Kingstone, with none of the artwork surrendering to any element of a naturalistic evolutionary worldview. This emanates from his firm belief in the Creator God of Genesis. He believes people can use their God-endowed creative gifts to represent biblical history accurately, staying faithful to what Scripture intends to teach. https://kingstone.co/collections/kingstone-bible-comic-collection/products/kingstone-bible-volume-ii The Book of Revelation differs from the rest of the New Testament, because it contains mostly visions and prophesies. [15] Siku represents this by telling the revelation through the dreams of a girl in a hospital in the 21st century.

https://kingstonecomics.com/collections/animated-comics/products/101-questions-19-how-did-all-the-animals-fit-in-the-ark https://kingstonecomics.com/collections/animated-comics/products/101-questions-22-what-does-the-bible-say-about-astrology The story line is set up with many traditional images from the Bible. Siku shows the reader how the relationship between God and the people changed over the course of the Old Testament, so that he would no longer talk to his chosen people directly. After the Exodus, the Book of Judges plays a prominent role. The Book of Ruth is drawn in a different style and is mostly told as a love story. The stories of Samson and David are developed in more detail. The Old Testament ends with Prophets such as Daniel and leads over to the New Testament. In a graphic novel, the illustrations are there, and the text is there to support that—but you can’t have the same amount of text that you would have in a normal Bible. How did you find ways to simplify, condense, or refine the text to make it work in that format?https://kingstone.co/collections/kingstone-bible-comic-collection/products/kingstone-bible-volume-iii McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. New York: Kitchen Sink Press 1993. ISBN 0-06-097625-X https://kingstonecomics.com/collections/animated-comics/products/101-questions-21-is-gambling-a-sin And really, more than anything else, I’m just excited that people who have never read the Bible are now having a chance to interact with it in way they haven’t been able to before. While these graphic novels have gone down well with teens and young adults, those in prison have also received them enthusiastically. Art explained that the inmates particularly like this format, as the images bring the text to life for them. Villagers in Kumon, Papua New Guinea (February 2021), taking great delight in sharing the graphic novels Saved by blood An unidentifiable prisoner engrossed in his copy

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Another example for the close connection between the Japanese culture and its aesthetic is shown in the silent wandering of Jesus through the wilderness, triggering on the sensory memory of the reader. [10] Siku describes the appearance of Jesus for example as “a Samurai stranger, who’s come to town, in a silhouette”. [11] He also works with facial expressions of his characters. When the Egyptians are punished with the death of their first born, because the Israelites are not freed, Siku draws the characters with a facial expression that also elicits compassion in the reader, an effect that is often used in manga. [12] Narrative [ edit ] https://kingstonecomics.com/collections/animated-comics/products/101-questions-6-those-who-havent-heard

Early in life, Art had a real physical connection to prisoners. At the age of four he was walking behind his father who was using a mower. A metal piece flew out and penetrated Art’s stomach and intestines. Rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, he was losing blood, and there was not enough to save him. A local prison brought prisoners to the hospital to donate their blood so he could live. Art Ayris serves as executive pastor of First Baptist Church, Leesburg, Florida. He is the founder of Kingstone Studios, and executive editor of the Kingstone Bible, the most complete graphic adaptation of the Bible ever made. He is also president of the Comic Bible Society, which distributes sections of Bible and apologetic material as graphic (comic style) novels in more than sixty languages. Art has been married to Kelly for 39 years and has two sons and two grandchildren. The text and quotes in The Manga Bible are from The Holy Bible, Today's New International Version that was first published in 2004. [5] For those people who want to read further in the Bible, the artists have included “Want to know more?” links indicating the references that help to find the passage in the original scripture. [6] Those links are also a good indicator for the reader to know which passages from the original Bible are included in The Manga Bible and which passages were left out. At the end of the book commentaries about key scenes are included. They give away some of the ideas that inspired Siku and Akin to write The Manga Bible, as well as the influences they had during the process. There are also sketches included that show the development of the art process.

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I'm a lifelong Christian, and I'm also an aspiring comic book writer. I really want to create a comic book series or a sequence of original graphic novels dramatizing the Biblical narratives. And not just simply as a teaching tool in children's Sunday School classrooms, but as genuinely high-quality works of fiction with real literary and artistic merit.