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

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Remember when Sweet claimed his racist comics were too over-the-top in their racism to be racist, and they were actually a satirical commentary on racism somehow? Here's his description of issue 49 of the Belch Dimension.

Fear of a Black Anything said:
The zero hour is upon us! With hundreds of blacks armed and ready to sieze the city, and their leader forced to make the ultimate sacrifice, The Treehouse Warriors now face the very real possibility of a city torn apart and ruled over by despotic Demi-Jon.
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Sounds like the standard race war fantasywank typically created and consumed by...uh...racists. Not to mention, from later on the same page, Sweet's planned in-universe explanation for why his ALFichus don't need to wear disguises:

It's-a me! Xenophobio! said:
Another deleted exchange showed Flunger asking the school librarian, Myra Krebs, "So you don't find my appearance unusual in the slightest?" To which she replied, "No, why should I? My first husband was an Italian." This would explain why in many of their appearances, Flunger and Gort go out freely in public without any sort of disguise--people simply assume they are short hairy men with large noses.
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Finally, another case of crashing insensitivity from Sweet Bro.

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>be Jonathan M. Sweet
>need front cover for your Sonichu
>take picture of a grave
>grave is for a child buried with mother
>child died same day it was born
>mother died 10 days after child
>deaths recent enough that relatives probably still alive
>add caption "Evil sleeps badly"
>shiggy diggy
 
Dug up this exchange from an archive of TV Tropes' infamous Troper Tales section - which got closed for being a spergy embarrassment even to TV Tropers. The usernames have been stripped, but the second paragraph is clearly Sweet. Archive is here, the exchange is on page 181.

***This troper had a funny idea for a comedy sketch where, in a pastlife, RobinWilliams was a {{Shakespeare}}an actor, who of course actedjust like he does now. And then she saw a ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketchfrom 1986 which was just that. Damn.

***Hey, at least '''you''' didn't[[http://welcometolemora.webs.com/25redyellowandblue.htm lose yourjob, see your reputation destroyed, and become forced to leave schoolover it]]. I'm not even sure who to be madder at, ''SNL'', BillClinton (for signing the TV ratings bill into law), or my formercoworker who started the dispute to begin with.

*** ''(Clicks link. Reads.)'' Clearly the experience drove you insane.
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When TV Tropers can immediately see you're insane...
 
LOL, yep, it's Bill Clinton's fault you ripped off Saturday Night Live and got kicked off your volunteer-run school newspaper (no, not a job). I'd say "never change, Sweet" but we all know there's nothing to worry about there.
 
The latest. Hopefully it works this time. For some reason, my browser seems to like crashing when I'm composing this.

HSMOF said: No one is blocking you, nor are we doing any "hack job".
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I disagree.

Further, our thread's only been up for a year and change. You've been attempting to sell books and comics for much longer than that.
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Maybe not you personally, but people who think like you. I founded the Smoking Cat Comics and Collectibles site in 2004, after "The Beau" split, and I have dealt with small-minded clowns roadblocking me at every turn for the better part of those ten years. Your motives aren't even clear. What is your endgame? Revealing that my life was a lie and everything I loved was one big prank nearly 20 years after the fact? Then what have you people been protecting all this time-- a roomful of dusty antique computers and a few aging whores? You people turned me onto certain progressive ideas at ASU, then did a total one-eighty and said I'm no longer allowed to enjoy them. Here's a thought: don't introduce me to something good, grab it away when I start enjoying it too much, then get mad at me for wanting more.

Ca Ira said: Now, when I was at university, I ran afoul of "the system" in a way similar to how you describe your incident at ASU. I was writing for the campus paper, but I eventually left on poor terms after a conflict with a copy editor. However, unlike yourself, I was not punished for this. I just moved on to write elsewhere, and was never subjected to the sort of persecution you report. Do you have any idea why this might be?
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Obviously I worked for a very different class of people than you did. I actually e-mailed one of the editors and asked him just this question, citing research for a new book project based on my old newspaper experiences. I think, though, what it all came down to is a personality conflict. I wasn't one of "them", and though there wasn't much overt hostility, I believe I was considered an interloper by some on staff. I still think it's no coincidence that the man who showed interest in my career is over sixty and stocking shelves in the school library-- the only one of the ed staff who never went on to a major newspaper or broadcasting, and it may be why why he appears to harbor so much resentment toward me.

Secondly, may I ask what sort of look you're going for with your facial hair? I see you represent it quite faithfully in your recent comic pages.
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No real "look", though some have compared it to Uncle Si from DUCK DYNASTY.


I guess I can see it. Although that sketch is three years old, and a lot more grey has settled in since. Here's a couple of recent snaps of me.

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This is what I look like when I listen to the John Boy and Billy Big Show and someone tells a good fart joke.

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Me and my dog.
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Ruin said:
Is there any credibility to his claim that he lives in da hood? Or his is definition of the hood a 95% white neighborhood with a couple of middle class black families?
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Sweet lives in or just outside Blytheville. AR. The city seems roughly 50% black and 50% white. About a quarter of families live in poverty, and Blytheville apparently experiences a higher crime rate than 99% of US cities.

Sweet's home seems pretty rundown. He has described details such as a missing window, crumbling wall, leaking roof, no central heating, and a yard full of old furniture and rusty lawnmowers.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
Wh at a racist goof.
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Sweet could've just said "high crime neighborhood" or "run-down neighborhood". But no, it has to be a "black neighborhood".

Absinthe said:
Sweet lives in or just outside Blytheville. AR.
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Sweet's profile on this site says he lives in "a squashed gob of dung on the Missouri Bootheel". Here's a picture of the typical landscape of the area:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_River_floodplain_in_Pemiscot_Township.jpg

And here's a familiar bookstore - in comics Sweet makes, he edited the text on it to read "THAT BOOKSTORE IN [J-WORD] JUNCTION":
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ThatBookstoreInBlythevilleAR.jpg
 
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sikotik said:
the same thing in his mind
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I talked about Sweet getting called out for having a town with a racist slur in the name in the comics back on page 77. Growing up in a bad neighborhood was Sweet's excuse explanation. If he wanted to make an unfavorable parody of Blytheville in the comics, he could've called it something non-racist instead, like "Blightville".

(no offense intended to anyone living in Blytheville here)
 
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Sometimes I wonder how true the attack story even is. A pack of black men maurading around randomly pick out a middle-aged white woman in her front yard to savagely assault because of riots happening half-way across the country?
 
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Sweet lives in Blytheville, Arkansas now. He lived in Hayti, Missouri (also about half white and half black, with a poverty rate of near 40%) in the past. His post office box is in Armorel, Arkansas. Just to clear that up, since he doesn't bother to update his info.
 
Seawa said:
Quite the informative post. Thank you for responding back. I will just kind of fade away for now. Let you guys marinate and do what you guys do. I don't want to get involved. (Yeah, we've been stalked before, don't like it.)
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Ducking out without responding to the uncomfortable questions a couple of people posed...I can see why Belch feels so at home there.

(I'm also really curious about the time their forum was allegedly stalked/harassed by a sneeze fetish site.)
 
So, I found another of Sweet's novels with a free preview. This time it's Postcards of the Hanging from 2004. I've attached the pdf of the preview pages - there's 15 in total, although whoever put the file together managed to mess the page order up at two separate places.

To be honest, the writing isn't bad bad. It's no Maradonia. It's very Sweetian, though. One character uses variants of the exclamation "dip me in shit!" twice in the course of the 15 pages, a woman is referred to as being so thin that a strong fart would blow her away, and a man breaks wind into a microphone.

The character Peter is of interest. He seems to be one of Sweet's obligatory self-inserts. The book uses a skipping timestream device, and at one point Peter is shown at the very beginning of his time at college, wearing a Humpty Dance t-shirt - very much like the one Sweet himself wore as a youth.

Thing is, on page 83 (page 2 of the pdf), Peter casually uses the word "nigger" to describe a man. I wonder if Sweet uses this word himself in such a casual manner? Perhaps he's just being an edgelord. Even so, the case for him being a bigot seems pretty unassailable.

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I'm also really curious about the time their forum was allegedly stalked/harassed by a sneeze fetish site.
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Several members of the AJM site had a thread going where they posted daily updates on the number of times they'd belched and sneezed that day. In summer 2006, a guest poster named Onlookergurl started asking some very detailed questions about these users' sneezing habits. This seems to have aroused suspicion, and the AJM mods discovered that Onlookergurl had been reposting things from their sneeze threads to a sneeze fetish forum.

Some users were disturbed by this revelation, others wanted to keep on with the tally thread and laughed off the attention from the observing sneeze fetishists. Eventually, it appears that the AJM mods closed the tally thread because of the attention it was attracting from the online sneeze fetish community.
 

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Absinthe said:
So, I found another of Sweet's novels with a free preview. This time it's Postcards of the Hanging from 2004. I've attached the pdf of the preview pages - there's 15 in total, although whoever put the file together managed to mess the page order up at two separate places.

To be honest, the writing isn't bad bad. It's no Maradonia. It's very Sweetian, though. One character uses variants of the exclamation "dip me in shit!" twice in the course of the 15 pages, a woman is referred to as being so thin that a strong fart would blow her away, and a man breaks wind into a microphone.

The character Peter is of interest. He seems to be one of Sweet's obligatory self-inserts. The book uses a skipping timestream device, and at one point Peter is shown at the very beginning of his time at college, wearing a Humpty Dance t-shirt - very much like the one Sweet himself wore as a youth.

Thing is, on page 83 (page 2 of the pdf), Peter casually uses the word "nigger" to describe a man. I wonder if Sweet uses this word himself in such a casual manner? Perhaps he's just being an edgelord. Even so, the case for him being a bigot seems pretty unassailable.
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I'd always been curious about the significance of the title of the book. "They're selling postcards of the hanging," the opening lyric from Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row," is usually interpreted as a reference to lynchings.
 
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