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Sinfest is a webcomic written and drawn by Japanese-American comic strip artist Tatsuya Ishida. The first strip appeared on January 17, 2000. A new strip is published daily on the Sinfest website. On July 9, 2006, the Sinfest website underwent a redesign, and became self-published, no longer a member of Keenspot.
Overview
Sinfest is perhaps best summarized as Eastern art with Western writing. Ishida's drawing is clearly influenced by manga but not limited to that particular style. The strip is hand-drawn in oversized frames and then scaled down. Ishida never re-uses the same frame within the same strip, even if the only change is a speech bubble.
Originally, all strips were pure black and white line art, but larger Sunday strips with full color were introduced shortly after Ishida broke away from Keenspot in the summer of 2006, which also coincided with a site redesign. Starting around late February 2007 Sinfest's style changed, and it was for a time drawn with different shades of grey. This change in itself was commemorated in a strip. As of 2008, the strip's weekly comics are drawn in black and white again. Historically, the strip has been updated more or less every day, but the period leading up to the split saw significantly fewer comics, with two unexplained dry-spells lasting at least a month. Since the new site was introduced on July 10, 2006, there has been a new strip every day.
The subject matter of Sinfest is often human nature, with particular attention paid to sexuality, gender roles, and religion. Less frequently, the strip will parody popular culture or indulge in political commentary. There are some recurring types of strip, such as "You Had to Be There" (where the reader is not told what the characters are discussing), "Japanese Calligraphy" (where one of the characters transforms over four panels into a kanji ideograph, usually related to the strip in some way.), "Porn Script Readings" (where Monique and Slick read porn star dialogue in deadpan style, except for once where they used flash cards for a Silent Film reading) and "Ninja Theatre" (where the characters take on the roles of heroes and villains in a martial arts movie). Though there is little in the way of overarching story or continuity in Sinfest, the central characters do undergo some development.
In each strip, a unique epigram appears above Ishida's name, for example: "Da Bomb," "Patent Pending" and "Some Assembly Required." The new-style Sunday strips include no epigrams.
Sinfest in print
According to the "Futility Watch" that was on the website previous to the July 9, 2006 redesign, Sinfest has been rejected by newspaper comic syndicates eleven times as of January 25, 2006.
Sinfest has appeared in print in the form of anthology books, released by Ishida's own production company Museworks. So far, three books have been published:
- Sinfest ISBN 0-9724663-0-4 (published November 21, 2002)
- Life is My Bitch ISBN 0-9724663-1-2 (published November, 2003)
- Dance of the Gods ISBN 0-9724663-2-0 (published October 26, 2005)
In Norway, Sinfest has appeared in the comic magazine Nemi. Unlike the web version it was colored before printing (in addition to being translated) and the epigram was cropped.
According to the February 23, 2009 "notes from The Resistance" section of the Sinfest website as well as a press release from Dark Horse Comics dated February 4, 2009 Sinfest will be published by the large independent comic publishing house in June 2009. A two page strip, without the usual epigram, entitled Sinfest: Street Poetry appeared in the May 2009 issue of Dark Horse Presents.
Characters
Slick
Slick, an inept womanizer and self-proclaimed pimp, is the strip's main character. Ishida admits that Slick's appearance is based on Calvin from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes; he has the same spiky blond hair and diminutive stature, but always wears shades which he refuses to remove, even during a tender moment with Monique. Slick is aged "between 14 and 21," but he is often seen consuming alcohol and looking at pornography, suggesting that, while he somewhat resembles a child, he is in fact a young adult. In the first strips, he applies to the Devil to sell his soul, and his application remained pending for years (it was accepted, later rejected, and, after the Devil's return from retirement, finally processed).
Much of the strip's humor revolves around Slick's futile attempts to persuade Monique to have sex with him, although in recent strips he is usually shown as having genuine feelings for her. On occasion, he has persuaded Monique to go on a date with him, but Squigley ruins it in some way, persuading Monique to break off the date. He has many alter-egos, including Wasabi the Pimp-Ninja, Slick. D. Sexington, Slick Daddy, and Uranus the Beat Poet. Occasionally responds to the 'Pimp Signal'. Slick's current morality is debatable, as he has been seen redeeming himself, giving up, and so on, making him a more three-dimensional character than in earlier strips.
Slick has a history of making crude romantic overtures to virtually any nameless woman he encounters, usually with little result. As the strip progressed, some of these women began expressing periodic mild interest in Slick (his poetry frequently receives positive feedback, except from Monique, of course), but he has never followed up on such romantic opportunities.
The strip centers on Slick, as he tends to interact with the most characters within any given timeframe. While some characters almost never interact with each other (Criminy rarely speaks with the Devil, for instance, or Monique with Ezekiel), Slick interacts with them all.
Monique
Monique is an attractive girl who has "many tramp-like qualities, but deep down inside she's still a tramp". Monique often appears shallow and vain, but has a reflective and insecure side as well. This side has been developing steadily since the series' beginning, where she is initially introduced as rather extroverted and straightforward. Since the first strips, Monique has arguably developed into as much of a main character as Slick himself.
Despite becoming more introspective over the years, Monique still has low fidelity and a rampant interest in men. She has been seen to be very cynical, always questioning the behaviors of men and the rest of the world. She remains single, however; early strips implied that she might be quite promiscuous in her sexual activity, but this aspect of her character was later toned down. For a time, a running gag in the strip was that she seemed to be attracted to every man she saw except Slick, although run-ins with nameless lecherous men have made her suspicious of some men.
Although Slick and Monique are frequently shown getting on each other's nerves (Monique has a basic function in upstaging Slick and being a counterweight to his inflated self-image) they remain friends. The majority of Slick's comments and actions toward Monique are of a purely sexual nature, but the two often depend on one another for company and amusement, and when Monique is in a bad mood, it is invariably Slick who snaps her out of it. In turn, she is the only thing that has kept Slick from ruining his own life (more than he already has) with his negotiations with the Devil, and, in fact, gave him a "get out of Hell free" card for Valentine's day; just in time too, being that it was on that exact day that the Devil came to collect his soul.
Indeed, most of Monique's appearances depict her either with Slick or on her own surrounded by the strip's "extras," while Slick himself more often interacts with Squigley, Criminy, and others in her absence. When Monique does interact with other recurring characters, it is frequently out of a shared interest in Slick's activities. However, she has been seen to interact with God on a notably frequent basis. Unlike Slick, she is basically critical to the Devil and seems to have a more positive relationship to the "big hand in the sky" - though she is also fairly critical of him, and has shown outright contempt towards the Angels.
There have also been strips where it is implied that she may have some feelings for Slick as well (or at least a possessive nature towards him). One such example involved Slick having a conversation with a girl in a bar that seemed to be romantically interested in him, which prompted Monique to indignantly state that the other girl was talking to "my Slicky!". Also, in one of the Sunday comics when Slick and Monique have taken to writing their own stories, in the last panel as they sit on two opposite sides of a tree, there is an engraving on the tree between them that says "S+M" surrounded by a heart that may have been made by Monique, as it seemed above Slick's reach due to his diminutive stature.
Monique's alter egos include Yellow Tail the Geisha Slut Villainess and Spoken-word Star It Girl, and EMOnique. her nicknames include 'Nique and Money, which sometimes causes some of Slick's comments to have double meanings. She once sends a gift (including the aforementioned "get out of hell free" card) to Slick under the name Monique N. Hotpantz.
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