Jesus and Mo

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Jesus and Mo
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A sample of the comic Jesus and Mo originally published in November 2006 featuring four of the five characters who have appeared in the comic to date.
Author(s) Mohammed Jones
Website http://www.jesusandmo.net
Current status / schedule Published twice per week
Launch date 24 November, 2005
Genre(s) Humour

Jesus and Mo is a British webcomic created by an artist using the pseudonym Mohammed Jones. Launched in November 2005, the comic is published on its eponymous website twice a week.

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[edit] Set-up

The simply drawn comic features two present day religious prophets, Jesus and Mo. While Jesus is portrayed as the actual Christian prophet, Mo claims to be a body double [1], apparently using casuistry to get around the restriction in Islam of representing the prophet Muhammad pictorially but which as the author is apparently not a believer in Islam does not apply to him.

Jesus and Mo share an apartment [2] and occasionally venture outside, principally to a public house, The Cock and Bull, where they imbibe Guinness stout and engage in conversation and debate with an atheist female bar attendant known simply as Barmaid, who is never drawn [3] but is characterised only as an out of frame speech bubble. They also converse with each other on a park bench [4].

A fourth character, Moses, another Abrahamic prophet, appears in a few strips. The Hindu god Ganesh made a one-time appearance; both Jesus and Mo mocked his depicted weight and four arms.

[edit] Themes

The comic consists mainly of religious satire, often criticizing arguments for religion [5], religious texts [6] and decrees [7] and the actions of believers [8]. As the comic features only Christian and Muslim prophets, these are generally directed at the two religions, though some apply to many forms of theism.

[edit] In print

Episodes from Jesus and Mo have been published in paperback.[citation needed] The first 1-50 and 51-100 strips are published in Vol 1 "Where's the soap?" and Vol 2 "Transubstantiated" respectively. Vol 3 "Things Not Seen" contain strips 101-140 of the comic, as well as 10 unpublished strips. [9] The strip is published sporadically in the British magazine The Freethinker[1] and three strips were printed in the Danish newspaper Information[2] and one in their online version on 2007-03-22.[3][2]


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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ freethinker
  2. ^ a b comixtalk
  3. ^ Peter Nielsen

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