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Il était une foi... Les religions ayant toutes dans leurs statuts un rejet viscéral de l'homosexualité, Ralf König ne pouvait faire l'impasse sur les incessants interdits, menaces, agressions, petites phrases et grands discours moralisateurs ou haineux prononcés en leur nom. Après avoir égratigné le fanatisme mahométan dans Djinn Djinn , l'auteur s'intéresse ici aux fondements de notre société judéo-chrétienne. Prototype est le premier volume d'une trilogie féroce racontant l'histoire de la création avec humour et irrévérence. On y découvre le serpent Lucifer (Lucy pour les intimes), Adam dans toute sa splendeur, La voix de Dieu, une Ève somme toute très moderne et tout un bestiaire accompagnant Adam à ses débuts solitaires sur terre.

110 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

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Ralf König

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Ralf König was born on the 8th of August in Soest, Westphalia, Germany. He went to the secondary school in Werl and then later did an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker. In 1979 during his coming-out he published his first short comic stories which due to the politically motivated gay-movement were very engaged. The comic-stories appeared in the Munich underground magazine Zomix as well as in the gay periodical Rosa Flieder. He decided to continue his studies and then trained at the National Academy of Art in Düsseldorf from 1981-1986 concentrating on Free Art.

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Author 7 books76 followers
November 8, 2018
3,5 en realidad.

Historias de un par de páginas protagonizadas por Adán (el prototipo) y en las que el autor aprovecha para reflexionar acerca de la existencia y otros temas.
8 reviews
June 19, 2015
Muy divertida e interesante obra de Ralf König. De lo poco que he leído de este autor me ha parecido lo más conseguido. Una versión satírica del Paraíso y las primeras reacciones del primer hombre, Adán, ante los iniciales impulsos de su entorno. Es una obra que recoge inquietudes filosóficas y religiosas en un contexto cómico.
Author 2 books2 followers
July 30, 2018
Bin aktuell im dritten Teil der Trilogie,
der erste hat mir klar am besten gefallen.
Die episodische Struktur (durch Einzelveröffentlichungen in der FAZ)
hatte einen guten Einfluss auf das Gesamtwerk, die einzelnen,
jeweils abgeschlossenen Abschnitte überzeugten mich deutlich besser
als die "freie" Struktur, die erzählerische Schwächen mit sich bringt.
Außerdem war "Prototyp" auch der graphisch ansprechendste Teil,
die "paradiesischen Zustände" hätte ich mir auch noch 200 Seiten länger gefallen lassen.
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35 reviews1 follower
September 7, 2021
Super duhovit strip, ki na moderen in sarkastičen način predstavi absurdnost krščanske mitologije stvarjenja.
136 reviews
February 20, 2024
It got me back into reading.
Liked it, funny, quick read.
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Author 5 books153 followers
September 25, 2022
..vietām apnicīgi, bet kopumā – tīri ok komikss par Ādamu, Ēdenes čūsku, Dievu utt. | 2,5*
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Author 15 books56 followers
July 4, 2015
Ralf König, THE Ralf König, takes on the Bible, the creation myth, Adam & Eve, Lucifer, the works.

Maybe I was expecting too much, having read some praise of this volume beforehand, but even though this was fun and in parts interesting, it was not overwhelmingly so.

The art is what you expect from a comic by König, heavy caricature, all big noses and ungainly, hairy bodies, though here represented in colour, which at least did not use to be the norm for his comics. The stories are short, between two and eight pages, mixing religious and philosopical ideas with the usual sharp, satirical dialogue.

Ok, so I will give this another chance and read the other two parts of König's Bible trilogy, but so far I'm not all that impressed. Sadly, as this was published a few years ago in Danish, and the two following volumes have been out for a while in Germany, it seems less and less likely that there is a translation forthcoming.
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324 reviews8 followers
May 21, 2020
Die Schöpfung, the Ralph König version. ⭐⭐⭐✨
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247 reviews17 followers
January 7, 2011
Ok, leggere un fumetto col dizionario davanti, quando di tedesco più in là di danke-bitte non si va, bisogna proprio volerlo. Ma Ralf König merita questo e altro.
Prototyp, ovvero il prototipo, è Adamo, in un giardino dell'Eden creato da un Gott un pochino isterico e bigotto, presente solo come voce dai caratteri in gotico, dove sul famoso albero di mele cerca di riposare attorcigliato il chilometrico e cornuto serpente rosso Luz (unica voce sensata della storia, che a volte cerca -inutilmente- di discutere col vecchio dio la gestione dell'Eden e del povero scimmione Adamo... ah,no, non chiamatelo "scimmia", ché altrimenti Gott si altera! :) )

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278 reviews57 followers
October 18, 2015
Encontré este tío (Ralf König) por casualidad pero seguro que voy a buscar otros libros de él. Este, primer parte de la trilogía "Génesis" es una sátira del cuento del jardín de Edén y primer hombre ("¡gruñ!") junto con el serpiente, Luci y al final con la primera mujer. Claro el omnipresente es presente también en las letras góticas.
Es una vista muy inteligente, también filosófica, muy, muy divertida sobre las cuestiones eternales.
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100 reviews
September 26, 2013
König a recuperar a forma depois de uma colecção menos inspirada. Muito engraçado, ri-me imenso :)
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62 reviews99 followers
November 6, 2016
Entretenido una visión divertida del génesis, el final está muy bien.
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197 reviews3 followers
November 26, 2017
König rompe con todo, y casi siempre de manera muy inteligente. El Adán, el Dios y la Serpiente que aparecen aquí se alejan de las interpretaciones conservadoras de los fervorosos creyentes y se humanizan y se acercan entre sí. Con gags dignos de su genio, König crea una versión del Génesis que no sólo invita a la risa sino también a la reflexión.
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