🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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Before, he was a shitty artist who did entertaining antics. Now he's a shitty artist who's boring.

Farewell, Jon Sweet... hope you know that stint of negative attention on a messageboard was literally the biggest you'll ever make it. As an artist, as an individual, as a human, you've peaked; now it's done. That was your "big time." The hubbub is over. Welcome to the far side of life's bell curve, the shady, uneventful downslope to death.
 
I just find it amazing that he does all these autistic updates about the belch dimension, but the only platform he uses to pimp out his comic is deviantart.

I guess no one told him about Web 2.0 and social media.
 
Shadow Fox said:
I like that he mentioned Stephen Hawking's death as though he gave a shit about Hawking's body of work or science in general. I figured anything more complicated than sticking pyramids on top of peanuts was sheer fringe science to the likes of Jon Sweet.
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I find it interesting that he cites John K. as an artistic influence when there is almost no evidence of that at all in his artwork.
 
Meowthkip said:
I find it interesting that he cites John K. as an artistic influence when there is almost no evidence of that at all in his artwork.
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Oh no, I see it. In the form of him compulsively putting in his psychological baggage and fetishes like all shit-artists accidentally do.
 
Adamska said:
Oh no, I see it. In the form of him compulsively putting in his psychological baggage and fetishes like all shit-artists accidentally do.
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That's the worst way to be influenced by him.
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Wherever he went during his sabbatical -- county jail? mental institution? alien spacecraft? -- doesn't seem to have helped.
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He was in a pocket dimension where Obama-cable doesn't exist, he consumed sumptuous banquets of Aramark-delivered food, and people explained to him how everything works.
 
Meowthkip said:
I find it interesting that he cites John K. as an artistic influence when there is almost no evidence of that at all in his artwork.
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He even did a blog about John K.: https://haggismccrablice.deviantart.com/journal/Apr-30-2018-742987038

Ironic how he talked about a correlation between creativity and mental disorders in one part of the blog when he also has a disorder but lacks creativity.

That aside, I noticed he's still doing the Whitewash Jones routine again after such a long time:

Dr. Belch said:
Oh, but don't worry about that, they'll just scream, "D-uhh! We nebber said that! Nuh, nuh, nuh! You misin-TUHHHHH-pret"
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Never change, Fartboy.
 
"The problem with keeping an open mind is that too many people try to throw garbage into it. I keep my mind tightly closed now. It isn't an inability to learn things, it's a willing choice I make, which takes far more mental fortitude to keep up. It takes no effort at all to be just like everyone else and glom on to whatever comes rolling down the pike. The truly exceptional thinker needs to compartmentalize data. If I seem to think one thing one day and another thing the following Tuesday, it's not because of any dishonesty on my part... it's because a strict vetting process is in place to keep out any information that sharply contradicts previously learned data. If A is true, than I must do B and C... but if X is the case, than I must initialize protocols Y and Z, and act accordingly. This sudden switching of gears makes small-minded idiots nervous and cause them to doubt my integrity, so I simply ignore the new data and re-establish default operating behavior-- that is to say,I will always return to the way things worked before. In order to avoid the propagation of too many uncomfortable questions, I simply don't try to buck the system. The people in power twenty years ago at A-States, bumblers and clowns though they may have been, saw I always felt comfortable and was kept happy. The people in power twenty years ago at A-State kept me largely in the dark on certain things because they felt it was best for me... and, more to the point, for them. They knew best, in their view. Why, after all these years, are they asking me to change that now? It seems all too suspicious. Asking too many questions oft leads to too many uncomfortable answers, I find. Sometimes it is best to just keep your head safely where it is, in the sand."
 
Karl_der_Grosse said:
"The problem with keeping an open mind is that too many people try to throw garbage into it. I keep my mind tightly closed now. It isn't an inability to learn things, it's a willing choice I make, which takes far more mental fortitude to keep up. It takes no effort at all to be just like everyone else and glom on to whatever comes rolling down the pike. The truly exceptional thinker needs to compartmentalize data. If I seem to think one thing one day and another thing the following Tuesday, it's not because of any dishonesty on my part... it's because a strict vetting process is in place to keep out any information that sharply contradicts previously learned data. If A is true, than I must do B and C... but if X is the case, than I must initialize protocols Y and Z, and act accordingly. This sudden switching of gears makes small-minded idiots nervous and cause them to doubt my integrity, so I simply ignore the new data and re-establish default operating behavior-- that is to say,I will always return to the way things worked before. In order to avoid the propagation of too many uncomfortable questions, I simply don't try to buck the system. The people in power twenty years ago at A-States, bumblers and clowns though they may have been, saw I always felt comfortable and was kept happy. The people in power twenty years ago at A-State kept me largely in the dark on certain things because they felt it was best for me... and, more to the point, for them. They knew best, in their view. Why, after all these years, are they asking me to change that now? It seems all too suspicious. Asking too many questions oft leads to too many uncomfortable answers, I find. Sometimes it is best to just keep your head safely where it is, in the sand."
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Is it common for people who claim they're not mentally ill to describe their thought processes without realizing that they're writing a textbook definition of mental illness?
 
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
Is it common for people who claim they're not mentally ill to describe their thought processes without realizing that they're writing a textbook definition of mental illness?
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It’s like an autistic manifesto that just rambles from finding a “diamond” to yelling about... shit, I read the damn thing and I still can’t entirely understand it
 
@Karl_der_Grosse quotes Iconoclast as writing:

"The people in power twenty years ago at A-State kept me largely in the dark on certain things because they felt it was best for me... and, more to the point, for them. They knew best, in their view. Why, after all these years, are they asking me to change that now?"

Does this mean that The Giant Brain has again contacted those long-suffering folks at Arkansas State University? It sure sounds like it.
 
Meowthkip said:
I find it interesting that he cites John K. as an artistic influence when there is almost no evidence of that at all in his artwork.
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He does things "off-model". Of course, that's just his excuse to do things half-assedly.

He's still alive? said:
The clerk who rang up my copy of Queen's Greatest Hits, vol. II told my mom how, upon learning frontman Freddie Mercury was gay, he burned every Queen album he had. She found this amusing, but to me it just sounded peculiar.

People need to learn to separate an artist from his body of work, esp. a collaborative effort like an animated series. Sure, the dumb cat and sociopath chihuahua were Kricfalusi's brainchild, but you're talking scores of people working together to make this happen. John K. was technically involved in less than a third of the series' run; he was terminated midway through season two and saw creative control of the show wrested from him. So, really, if you're boycotting Ren & Stimpy, or its darker, smuttier reboot Adult Party Cartoon, or The Ripping Friends, or any other project with John. K.'s name on it, beware: you're tossing out a lot of babies along with that sullied bathwater.
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You like Freddie's work despite his sexuality? That's mighty progressive of you. ;D

He's still on that said:
Studies have shown that workers with autism and Asperger's syndrome, if correctly handled (note my emphasis), actually make for better employees. Their subtly different perception of things can be an asset in the creative industry. They have a different, fresh perspective to offer, and their strengths and virtues far outweigh their social deficits. As Dr. Temple Grandin puts it, “What would happen if you eliminated the autism gene from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.”
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Oh, so now you have no problem with autistics?
 
TheUltimatePickle said:
I just find it amazing that he does all these autistic updates about the belch dimension, but the only platform he uses to pimp out his comic is deviantart.

I guess no one told him about Web 2.0 and social media.
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Web 2.0? For a guy who boasts that he can't operate a washing machine because the controls are too complicated? For a guy who produces his comics with MS Paint? Does Web 2.0 even run on Windows 95? Get outta here with your bleeding-edge tech solutions.

On the other hand, I join you in wishing that Sweet would promote his brand on social media. The Jigaboo Junction page on Facebook would certainly attract a large, vocal, and opinionated audience. And #BrokeBlackMountain would gain some traction on Twitter. He could even start a YouTube channel -- The Lovable Rascal? -- and explain to the world how black people can attack and kill white people "in seconds" before "melting back into the darkness."
 
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