Re: Sinfest

In article <vl3rp3$n5c$1@reader2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

In article <vl3qlo$2rkt2$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

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If you can get that much of a coherent plot out of Sinfest, you're
doing better than most - lets remember that this plot arc started
in Alice's Wonderland.
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For those who don't know:
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Sinfest is a webcomic (sinfest.xyz). It started around 2000, and
for the first decade was a cute and very fun slice-of-life comic,
with a clean and enjoyable art style. Around 2010 the brain worms
struck the author/artist, and it has turned into an increasingly
deranged polemic, starting with second-wave radical feminism,
TERF, SWERF, anti-gay, anti-woke, anti-DEI, and now, pure quill
anti-semitism, all while maintaining the same cutesy art style.
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There's a sub on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/sinfest/
which has been following this train wreck of dumpster fires,
with sort of horrified fascination.

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It's not unheard of for comic artists to go a bit funny as they
age. Lynn Johnston, Neal Adams, and of course Kitchener's own
Dave Sim come to mind. But Sinfest's creator is a pretty extreme
example. 
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The author seems to be healthy so perhaps we will find out
what's after the TERF > Nazi progression.

The whole creator working in isolation goes batshit crazy and
starts smearing excement on the walls career path is one of the
reason I work in theatre, as that's a context where I have to
cooperatively interact with a wide range of people.

The other reason is I had a terrible am dram experience in 2016
and I wanted to see if the issue was me or them. Thus far, I
get to do all the theatre jobs* (or the ones I want to do) while
that other group has cancelled shows and moved to ever smaller
venues. Kind of ambigious results, really. 

* Not so much that I am good at them but because I am punctual.
It is amazing how much more useful a person who is present is
over someone who is absent.
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