#sinfest

[thewebcomicsreview]

Sorry for posting Sinfest twice in a row, but it's a momentous day. In today's Sinfest, Republicans and Democrats literally kneel before "Zog", a triad of Benjamin Netanyahu, right-wing nutjob Ben Shapiro, and even more right-wing even more nutjob Lara Loomer. If you're wondering what these three seemingly random people have in common, I'll give you a hint: "Zog" is white supremacist slang for "Zionist Occupied Government".

Yes, that's right. I told you he'd do it eventually and I'd let you know, and now he's finally doing it and I'm letting you know. After a decade plus of "Bilderburger" jokes and (((Devils))) running the media, Tats is now explicitly saying that America is controlled by The Joos. He's fully mask-off now.

#Sinfest #Antisemitism #Less important but it's hilarious that after all this HARMacy stuff Tats is listing trans as a minor issue

[oldinterneticons]

I keel you, yarnball.

#comics #sinfest #cats

[autolenaphilia]

Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida is so fascinating to me, like it's one person mental decline over a period of decades in a webcomic form. Like the political evolution over the years is insane. Ishida started out as a fairly normal liberal dude, who reacted to Bush-era christian conservatism with sex-positive edgelording. He depicted Obama as over-the-top cool in a way that felt only half-ironic. Ironically in light of his later politics, he also had some caricatures of man- and sex-hating feminists. It wasn't really a heavily political strip either, there were character-based stories.

And then in the 2010s Ishida had a weird conversion to radical feminism. This took over the comic, and it became extremely political in a strident and unsubtle way.

It started out with a heavy focus on SWERF and anti-porn stuff, and there are some porn addiction arcs that it's easy to read autobiographically. Like you get the impression Ishida thinks he has a porn addiction and feels really bad about it, and radical feminism felt like an easier outlet for his feelings about it than the religion he had mocked so much before. He had drawn man-hating sex negative caricatures of feminists before, and that's ironically the exact kind of feminist he decided to become.

And how it depicts male consumption of porn is telling. Like porn is bad, but men are compelled to consume it and can never stop, because men are all irredeemably horny misogynists. It feels like a expression of self-hatred. Sinfest became a vehicle for unsubtle caustic moralistic invective, but it always seem to spill back on Ishida himself.

Ishida is heavy on the performative man-hating that male radfems usually aren't. And his main mouthpiece character during this phase is a lesbian woman.

Ishida's depiction of porn and sex work also consistently feels off, like the victims of the sex trade are drawn too sexy to really work as anti-porn. The sex workers in the comic are also literally sex robots, but clearly meant to stand in for real life human sex workers. It's very condescending.

It took a few years before Ishida fully revealed his transmisogyny. And since then it has increasingly dominated the comic. Extremely transmisogynist caricatures of transfems everywhere. Like every online transmisogynist, it has become an obsession for Ishida. And it's weird, like he has this obsession with drawing girlbulge on his transmisogynist caricatures that feels downright fetishistic.

Like I'm not usually like "transmisogynists are rotten eggs", but honestly Ishida feels like that might be true. The lesbian author stand-in, the self-hatred that extends to men as a gender, the obsessive transmisogyny. Reading Sinfest there feels like there is something deeply wrong with Ishida. He is not just a bigot, but feels deeply disturbed. And a case of extreme internalized transmisogyny and repression is as good an explanation as any.

Ishida has however gotten worse, and zoomed down the terf-to-fascist pipeline. The comic has evolved from terfy to full-on MAGA fascist. His transmisogyny has guided Ishida to darker and darker territory. There is an comic where his lesbian mouthpiece character abandons the left precisely because the left accepts trans people. He is now an anti-vaxxer and covid denialist of course, and his literal in-comic reason for distrusting vaccines is that medical scientists also favor trans healthcare.

Most recently Ishida has done an anti-immigration arc, where immigrants are depicted as evil alien invaders from pop culture. And that illustrates how self-defeating and ironic his views are. He is literally condemning immigration as an American man named Tatsuya Ishida.

Lesbian radfems beset by porn culture and the tranny menace no longer play a large part in modern Sinfest. His heroes are now redneck magahats, depicted as unfairly prosecuted by far-left cancel culture. And he seems entirely okay with their social conservatism, a right-wing redneck family has a housewife, and its depicted as okay.

By now he has done a full 180 over the last 20 years. The right-wing conservatives who he mocked in the 00s, are now his heroes.

The recurring characters and the storylines based around them are barely there, it's all political commentary at this point. When the old characters appear it's usually as props in his heavy-handed commentary.

Sinfest was never a great comic even at its 00s peak, but it was a normal comic. Now it's just a sad record of one person's mental and political decline.

#sinfest #tatsuya ishida #my writings

[aceballcomics]

whaaaat I’m not talking about sinfest what are you taallkinggg abouuutttt

#art #comics #lgbtq artist #lgbtq #me irl #funnytumblr #jokes #asexual #sinfest #dear god #it got SO MUCH WORSE #who allowed this

[bogleech]

Good god, I used to read Sinfest years ago when it was just a silly thing that had some social commentary, but I haven't read it in years and seeing that submission made me check it out and...wow it turned into something radically diferent, scary, and dumb. Do you know the reason for the dramatic shift?

I think I might have talked about this in some post (or was going to and got sidetracked?) but when you look back at even the earliest Sinfest strips, you could always see Ishida's Christian-driven self-loathing beneath his facade of macho bro humor. Even the jokes about horniness always came with a theme of guilt and shame:

He'd do comics about how he likes boobies and then the very next day he'd do a comic about how masturbators are diseased heathens who go to hell, dressed up like it was just edgelord comedy. He clearly struggled to reconcile his strict religious views with having ay sexuality at all.

Over the past few years, he very suddenly evolved from that to full blown sex-negative fundamentalism, and from there to "gender critical" TERF indoctrination, and from there to full blown conspiracy theorist, antivaccine, antisemitic chud.

Even 4chan threads about him apparently just rip him to pieces and refer to him as a "misanthropic lunatic" or things I can't really repeat on tumblr. I don't think the TERFs he so desperately wants the approval of are even typically with him on the covid conspiracies. I've never seen an artist work so hard to be hated by as many different kinds of people in my entire life and still see himself as a creative genius. I also never interacted with him but he's had me blocked on twitter since before any post I ever made about how fucked up he is, so, that's funny. He must have just coincidentally seen my opinions on something unrelated that offended him.

#sinfest #racism #transphobia #homophobia #antisemitism #webcomics

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

So Sinfest is about a decadent urban hellscape as seen through the eyes of a mentally unstable loner with:

A savior complex toward women and girls, which in practice only makes actual women and girls uncomfortable

Simultaneous obsession and disgust toward sex trafficking, including of children, and toward pornography

Fantasies about cleansing society through heroic vigilantism against the purveyors of vice who control everything and are represented as pimps in stereotypical 1970s-style outfits with feathered hats and all

A racist and queerphobic streak a mile wide

Haven't we seen this before?

(Tagging @feotakahari, @dagny-hashtaggart, and @quasi-normalcy here; may reblog to tag others)

#webcomics #tatsuya ishida #sinfest #martin scorsese #taxi driver #robert de niro #travis bickle

[daughter-of-sapph0]

I'm sure you all know about that shitty transphobic comic artist, sinfest, aka Tatsuya Ishida. maybe you've seen one or two of his comics from people making fun of him. maybe you remember how he used to be a "male ally of radical feminists" or whatever a few years ago. I still see people spreading his shit around without realizing how terrible he is.

he supports the Jan 6 insurrection. he sees it as a "epic battle between woke gay anarchy man and cool based qanon guy" and not literally a coup

he's extremely antisemitic

like, really fucking antisemitic

like, "not even gonna hide it, evil lizard shapshifters are taking over the government and grooming your children!" antisemitic.

he blatantly supports literal nazis websites. those icons are for websites that host far right video sharing platforms, trumps new social media, and literal neo nazis

look at this shit. he's complaining about "soyboys", "the pandemic", etc. but also thinks that the transphobic ideologies that pretend to be feminists aren't mainstream. too much time on 4chan I see...

and notice how in every single one of these comics he draws himself as a tiny girl. reminder that Tatsuya is a middle aged adult man.

wait a minute. that little girl self insert looks familiar

oh, look at that. one of his older comics from about a decade ago, using that exact character, and being blatantly misogynistic and antifeminist.

terfs and radfems, let this be a reminder to you. he was never a feminist. he is a sexist transphobic racist antisemitic homophobic abilst pig. he slid past your stupid ideology on the way to full on fascism. let that sink in: radical "feminism" is just the middle point between edgy antifeminist garbage and full on nazism. if you support this guy, you are not, and have never been, a feminist.

you didn't have a problem with him drawing himself as a ten year old girl. you didn't have a problem with his blatant sexism bleeding into his comics with his fembot crap. "oh but like he's drawing the sexy women getting beat up because that's how society views women" no its how HE views SEX WORKERS. him constantly showing his fembot characters getting destroyed or reprogrammed is his view that all sex workers, and by extention all women, should either change their views or be killed.

now he's gone full mask off fascist with absolutely no subtlety or shame. and some of you STILL think he's a radfem ally. which means you're okay with radfems being nazis as long as it doesn't affect you.

anyway, Tatsuya Ishida is a nazi, and anyone who supports him is a nazi. how can you look at these disgusting antisemitic lizard drawings and still support him?

#dostxt #tw antisemitism #tw transphobia #tw racism #tw nazis #tw radfems #sinfest #tatsuya ishida

[hypocrisyofandrewdobson]

It would be easy to say that, in hindsight, Dobson "went woke and went broke", right? That "trend" where the original storyline was sacificed for propaganda, which applies to So You're a Cartoonist. Of course, that silly slogan is meaningless when we know of Dobson's character and his lazyness. Besides, that motto applies more to Sinfest, which is on the opposite end of the ideology thing.

It could apply to Dobson, in a way. Although on his case, he specifically went “woke” because he thought it would get him attention and popularity. It also let him vent his odd hatred of men in general, but that’s a whole other thing. I’d like to believe that at least some of the people who actually fell to the “go woke go broke” curse actually did believe in what they were preaching, so to speak.

Sinfest has weirdly went from a comedy to hard left and has recently swung to hard right and I have no idea what’s going on with it.

#andrew dobson #tom preston #sinfest #go woke go broke #adobsonartworks #adobsonart #ask #anonymous

[maswartz]

I love how despite being the one in charge of the narrative Tats doesn't have any of the actual alien invaders do anything actually threatening. They're literally just WALKING and he's acting like it's an invasion. Also way to prove that the immigration system needs to be re-worked considering it takes years to do things the legal way. And of course Tats just can't help but include his handmaidens in there.

#sinfest

[organsblackcoat]

hey so you know that really transphobic terf artist on twitter

:3 @flushotsforlesbians @creamcheezsneeze @roadkillerino @box-head @deathrampsz @theindo, @smokehalos @dezy995 and there are the people on insta gotta.regret.m8, _funni_man__

#digital art #sinfest #unironically I read all 23 strips of sinfest and this is my first post about it idk I'll probably make more stuff with this

[enjoymorestuff]

#sinfest #twitter screenshot #I don't normally screenshot twitter but this was very accurate

[thewebcomicsreview]

thank you for the service you have offered us in regard to Sinfest. you have been like someone who watches and annotates the many stages of decay a body goes through on its way to bones, which is a useful, sometimes vital, piece of information. and we could not get that information ourselves because we knew the body when it was alive. now the ordeal is done, at last. the bones will be buried, and we will both be free.

True story: Like an hour after posting that I was done with Sinfest I got very sick very suddenly. I couldn't eat. I felt like I was going to throw up, and even after taking a two-hour nap I collapsed on the bathroom floor and was unable to get up for like forty-five minutes. Like, I was literally so sick I could not stand. I can't remember the last time I was so weak.

A scientist might connect this to the bad Lean Cuisine I'd had for lunch and say it was food poisoning, or possibly my 23,000-step-a-day exercise regime finally catching up to me, but I know the Truth. It was Tatsuya Ishida's final psychic attack against me. But I beat it. I'm better now. He can't hurt me anymore.

I'm finally free.

#Sinfest

[samstarium]

teeny tiny trans monique icons from sinfest; fuck you tats!

#edits #icons #pride icons #sinfest #yes ik the one in the middle is a different size lol #oh well #and no i do not support the creator at all i just thought these would b funny n fun to make #the monique and slick in my head r so cool and also t4t. sorry

[drpsyche]

Sinfest is a dumb hateful comic, and now it's complaining about environmental conservation.

But it's hilarious that the writer depicts Starscream as a good guy who would give a shit about humans.

Not understanding anything is classic Tatsuya.

#sinfest #starscream #transformers

[saprobiont]

when terfs draw trans women caricatures like "oohdhisoihf look she's hairy and she has broad shoulders. that's bad. i am doing this to make it clear shes trans and to elevate cis women btw." you're fucking telling on yourself man like. you don't think that's an acceptable way for any woman to look? that's reprehensible? hm? fucking eat dirt.

#sinfest

[bogleech]

This.... this is just plain weird.

for a guy whose entire webcomic is now about how much he loathes and fears trans people he sure draws all these trans villains really stylish and cool. Penguin looks great like this. I want little pink grandma penguin to be canon.

Making Biden two face is narratively the laziest thing I can imagine, though. I say that as someone who AGREES he's been two-faced, probably not for the same reasons that this chud thinks so, but even a portrayal of Trump or Bush as two-face would have made me cringe because a baby can come up with that. If the Sinfest parody of Biden is playing him up as a deranged kook and skeevy pervert why the hell isn't he Mad Hatter!? I'm not even a comic book fan and I know Hatter is exactly everything he wanted for this joke, damn it!!!

(UPDATE what I assumed to be penguin was already supposed to be mad hatter, why is he so bad at everything)

#transphobia #conservatism #sinfest #webcomics #politics