When I first saw these mini comics I thought they were by Nicholas Gurewitch of Perry Bible Fellowship fame. The PBF is maybe my favorite online comic strip, given that I have no interest in video games and I can't relate to Achewood. So anyway, the surface similarities led me to connect this mini-comic with The PBF, and when I looked closer I realized that I had made a connection based on the title and a cursuory glance at the art, but upon inspection realized that this was a separate creation all together.
The books themselves are small in their sense of scale, both of them measuring 3.5 inches by 4.25 inches, and the guts are photocopied in black and white, but they also have some typical mini-comic upgrades, reflective foil covers and a stamp in issue one. Each book consists of 36 pages of single panel cartoons, all based on the title conceit being that they are tenets and features of "your new religion".
The books are funny. Drawn with simple moon-faced characters you see above, the gags range from goofy non-sequiturs ("Lick a cat for forgiveness") to inversions of traditional religious dogma ("Mandatory suicide for impure thoughts"). The art is confident and carries the appropriate amount of information, and nuanced with tones that look to be created by colored pencil. The artist, Joe Sayers, was new to me, but after enjoying this book I spent some time on his website, including time with his webcomic, thingpart. You can also pick up the Religion comics there.
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