Sinfest
webcomic
Sinfest is a long-running American webcomic by Tatsuya Ishida. Updating daily, Sinfest started as a black comedy strip in January 2000. It covers such topics as American politics, organized religion, and radical feminism.
Quotes edit
2000 edit
- Slick: This world you created is a bust! It's a full-on hellhole! What gives?!
God: Well, it's a sort of work in progress. It's open to interpretation and functions on multiple levels.- "Creator 2" (May 28, 2000)
2001 edit
- Seymour: [shouting] Praise the Lord! Go to church! Save your soul! Repent now! God is watching!
The Devil: [to God] You need better representation.- "Better PR" (February 1, 2001)
2006 edit
- Criminy: I fortify myself with facts. Arm myself with information. Empower myself with wisdom … then I hide away.
- "Fort" (August 23, 2006)
2009 edit
- Slick: What do you want? Name it and I'll get it for you!
Monique: World peace.
Slick: You got it! Wait here! [On phone] Hello? Sinister shadow government responsible for all the wars in human history? Stop it!- "Epiphany" (May 13, 2009)
2010 edit
- Fuchsia: Does it bother you that I'm a devil girl? That I have horns and a tail and shoot fire from my hands and the fact that I'm not normal in any way, shape or form whatsoever?
Criminy: Only if it bothers you.- "Does It Bother You?" (June 18, 2010)
2011 edit
- Slick: There's nothing wrong with admiring the female form …
Xanthe: No mansplaining.
Slick: "Mansplaining"?
Xanthe: You are awash in male privilege and heteronormative assumptions about gender performativity.
Slick: Hetero what?
Xanthe: Heteronormative assumptions about gender performativity.
Slick: In English, please?- "The Sisterhood 3" (October 5, 2011)
2013 edit
- Xanthe: Pornography and prostitution are the main pillars of male supremacy and must be eradicated for the liberation of women everywhere.
- "Password" (January 25, 2013)
- Theo: But … I want to be edgy, and politically incorrect. Like you! Blaxploitation Funk Bible!
The Cartoonist: I was … misguided.- "Spotting Blacks 2" (April 8, 2013)
Quotes about Sinfest edit
- The first seven years it was coffee and revenge. That's what kept me going. My attitude was, "I'll show them. I'll show them all!"
- Tatsuya Ishida, as quoted in "The Wages of Sinfest" (archived), Laura Hudson, Publishers Weekly (2009-06-09)
