Joseph and Caesar have been on my list for so long and I finally got around drawing them! I love them both so much;
I really hope you like them! Gonna have them first at Fantasy Basel 2024 and then in the online shop!
JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. Jewish laws have a lot of stuff about impurities and uncleanliness. After giving birth, for example, a mother becomes impure for a time (forty days after having a boy, or eighty for a girl). During this time, the mother can't enter temples (dwelling places of God) or touch anything sacred.
2. In this cartoon, Joseph reads about the above impurity laws from a brochure. At first, it seems like he's just informing his beloved wife of their religious duties, but in fact, he's only using it to build up an argument of why HE should be the one holding the new Baby Jesus. After all, if Mary is legally impure, doesn't that mean she can't hold Jesus, since He's sacred? Of course, by that logic, the manger could be considered a temple, since it's the current dwelling place of God-made-Man, but Joseph wisely avoids arguing this point.
Disney gives us all this garbage that nobody asked for - remakes and money grabs that make me cringe - but what I need - we NEED
I NEED A MOVIE ABOUT YOUNG QUEEN CLARRISE TEARING IT UP IN GENOVIA.
Think about it, shes a dutiful young princess who has an arranged marriage to the young handsome King Rupert, but odd sexual attraction between her and her new bodyguard Joseph.
It writes itself.
Headcannon Rupert and Jo are best friends and Rupert knows that they are basically a throuple- and is on board.
JOKE-OGRAPHY:
1. "Annunciation" (announcing something) and "enunciation" (pronouncing something) are two words that sound very similar, so I took the Biblical Annunciation (when the angel Gabriel announced Christ's birth to Mary) and set it beside an imagining of Jesus pronouncing -- or enunciating -- His first word. I alluded to this pun a couple weeks ago in a previous cartoon's description, then decided it ought to have its own comic.
2. My sisters suggested "Abba" as Jesus's first word. I thought it was perfect, because it's a plausible first word for a baby, since it's made up of simple syllables -- like "mama" or "dada" -- but it's also got that Son-of-God vibe to it.