My New Favorite Webcomic
- Posted by Johanna on March 7, 2007 at 3:15 pm
- Category: Webcomics
… is Sinfest.
The cartooning is simply amazing. Just look at today’s strip. It’s well-observed, realistic, funny, and approachable.
The artist doesn’t just do cute animals, though. Tatsuya Ishida also tackles the immortal subject of love (in a form unique to the medium of comics) when not handling cosmic beings.
March 8, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Sinfest is one of my top 3 favourite web comics, and one of my top 5 favourite web *pages*, and Ishida needs all the publicity he can get. I think Dirk at Journalista said it first, but I’ll repeat it:
If more newspaper strips were as good as Sinfest, I’d go back to reading the newspaper.
March 8, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I just wish it were easier to get the books! He’s got them listed through Cafepress, but the first two show “out of stock”, and I couldn’t get the site to let me order the third.
March 8, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Yes Sinfest is great, one of the best webcomics I’ve seen. I’ve been reading it regularly for a few years now.
A publisher should be printing his stuff.
March 8, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Yeah, Sinfest is indeed great. I’ve got all three collections… bought them through Diamond when they came out, so I never had to figure out where else to get them (is there a problem with just using amazon?).
~Sebastian
March 9, 2007 at 7:00 am
The creator prices his books at $15. Amazon has them at $22. I can see a premium if they’re hard to find, but increasing the price by half again?
If they went through Diamond, I wonder if they’re in the STAR system?
March 9, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Newspapers wouldn’t get anywhere near Sinfest. Due to the religion-based humor more than the PG-rated sexual matter, I’d wager.
This old school fan of printed comics is grateful for the collections. I too get them via Diamond at my fave comics shop. Except for the first one, which I bought from Ishida himself at the infamous Las Vegas “Extrosion” convention.