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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: Sinfest
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 14:52:52 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vl6639$3c84q$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 01/01/2025 16:50, James Nicoll 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.
>
>I think that again, your application of the
>word "funny" is idiosyncratic.  I'm going to
>propose "go wrong" instead.  And it may be
>misleading to see that as age or brain health
>related dementia typically, though I suppose
>that can be the cause.
>
>Perhaps we have more to say about cases of
>SFF writers.  In some cases - that the signs
>were there before.
>

"A bit funny" is less likely to attract lawsuits than
phrases like "batshit insane".
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