Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “light2“, was noted as “a resurrection from 2007 today. Normal service will be resumed next week, inshallah.”
That shows how long the strip has been going! There’s a Wikipedia article on the strip that says it began in 2005. An excerpt:
The comic is simply drawn, typically using a single image for each face, each of which is duplicated for each panel in the strip. It features two present-day religious prophets, Jesus and Mo. While Jesus is portrayed as the bona fide Christian Jesus, Mo claims to be a body double, using casuistry to circumvent the Islamic restriction against pictorial depictions of Muhammad.
Jesus and Mo share a flat (and a bed), and occasionally venture outside, principally to a public house, The Cock and Bull, where they drink Guinness and engage in conversation and debate with an atheist female bartender known simply as Barmaid, who is never drawn but is characterised only as an out-of-frame speech bubble. The barmaid functions as the voice of reason when criticising the Abrahamic religions or religion in general. Other times, Jesus or Mo may act as the voice of reason depending on which religion a particular comic aims to criticise. Jesus will act as the author’s mouthpiece if the comic aims to criticise Islam while the character Mo will be used to criticise Christianity. They also converse with each other on a park bench.
It’s the twentieth anniversary of the strip. If you contribute to it on Patreon (you can even start with $1 a month), or even if you read it for free, show the stripsome love in the comments, and I’ll notify the artist. Given the topic, I’m sure he/she doesn’t get much opprobrium!
I subscribe both to J&M and Rob Rogers, even tho sadly he’s not on Israel’s side.
Shining that light where the sun don’t shine for twenty years – congratulations!
I have been a subscriber for some number of years. Can’t recall how many but am pretty certain that it was our host who brought it to my attention. So, thanks for that, Jerry.
I like to think of the barmaid as a constitutional peasant.
“Bloody infidel.”
“Oh, what a give-away, did you hear that eh? That’s what I’m on about. Did you see ‘im repressing me?”
I did not know that wasn’t the real Mo! The resemblance is amazing.
I’ve been following this strip (mostly on this blog) for years. It is always entertaining and insight-ful. Kudos to the cartoonist.
I came across J&M in 2006 or 2007 and have been faithfully following it ever since and recommending it highly to everyone I know.
I first encountered Jesus ‘N’ Mo here at WEIT. Thank you Jerry. And thanks to the artist bravely raising questions and observations that need to be heard and seen.
Jesus and Mo can be better than coffee for getting my morning off to a laughing start. Ironic humor is the best possible way to start a happy day so I owe the author and our host for many morning belly laughs. Thank you both.