Jesus in Palestine? Possibly…

by kenny.wong ~ December 2nd, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized.

At first I paid this no mind, probably just an aesthetic Sacco chose to adopt while drawing his comics.  But the more I saw it in the panels, the more curious I became: Is Sacco putting a flavor of Jesus in his comic?  In early times, images of Jesus were always accompanied with a golden halo behind him, (evidence shows that this is actually a pagan representation, the Son of God is the Sun of “god”, but that’s another discussion), as seen here:

Well, he's got the halo, but I'm pretty sure the staff and lamb are just metaphoric...

Anyways, in many of the panels, Sacco chooses to give a black background with a white “halo” around some of his characters, including himself.  Is he alluding that there is some sort of savior aspect to storytelling or to these people or himself? Or am I going out on a limb because one thing reminded me of another?

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