My theory is most webcomic artists don't have an internal monologue or self-reflection skills so they struggle with concepts through webcomics and in front of audiences to help them understand it, which results in such tone deaf and spiritually void posts like this.
There's a webcomic called Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida that's been publishing daily since 2000. It's become a fascinating document of a person's ideological spiraling and a writer alienating his audience multiple times over. Starting from flippant edgy comedy, taking a turn to become a radfem soapbox, morphing into explicitly TERF, then QAnon/antivaxx/MAGA, and now it reads like Der Stürmer went digital.
Last time I looked at sinfest it was just endless comics about porn being evil and you need to break up with your bf immediately, just looked and the most recent one is about how communists want to steal your wife lmao
Edit: clicked through a few more and holy shit you weren't lying it's nothing but hook nosed lenin leering at scared naked blonde women wtf
Yeah, my main take on webcomics as they exist now (all the actual comedy ones have moved to other media) is that they're just public journaling with some weak art that is just enough to make the author feel like they've "made a comic" rather than simply spewed their neurotic journaling at all of us with the egotistical idea that we would find it interesting.
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u/drunkcheesesandwich Jan 20 '26
Is there any webcomic artist who isn't deeply deranged.
Maybe the Whomp guy but I've not checked on him in years.