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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Sinfest
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2025 17:04:33 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>For those who don't know:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.
>
>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.  
>
>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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