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

[Le Bateleur]

Came up fine for me.

Thanks. Working for me now too.

 

[Holdek]

I wonder if he's ever posted at Free Republic? Or really, any conservative forum? I think he posts at general interest and LOLcow forums because he knows his political statements wouldn't stand up to scrutiny.

 

[Ca Ira]

A few excerpts from Sweet's latest screed:

The point is, my work is what the people really want, and soon they will embrace me just as they did as when I was a bright, ambitious 21-year-old columnist 18 years ago.

Sweet predicts he will achieve success "soon." This is a bit of a deviation from the usual assertions that he would succeed but can't due to circumstances outside of his control.

I swear to God, you choose the piddliest little things to get mad about in my work. For example, the cut gag about an alien mistaken for an Italian ... In the original version of the line, she said "Jewish". From me it would be anti-Semitic. If Seth MacFarlane said it. you'd be falling all over yourselves laughing. Admit it.

Sweet is banking on all of his critics being devoted Seth MacFarlane fans. And, of course, if you criticize Sweet, it means you must be "mad" about or otherwise upset by him.

On the other hand, this could possibly mean that Sweet realized, on his own, that "JEW = HAIRY MONSTER LOL" wouldn't go over well.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

On the other hand, this could possibly mean that Sweet realized, on his own, that "JEW = HAIRY MONSTER LOL" wouldn't go over well.

I doubt it.

Those familiar with the Golden Knight may be interested to know that there's someone else whose comics are MOM APPROVED:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

That content scattered all over the page...the text written in different fonts and colors with colored backgrounds...I see that Sweet's exceptional sense of layout extends to more than just his comic art.

You could've warned me about the large toilet pic on the bottom. Really, Sweet?

I was a bright, ambitious 21-year-old columnist 18 years ago.

Can he ever get over that Herald experience? Also, "ambitious" is hard to believe, considering what Sweet has done since he was terminated from the Herald.

As for "bright", let Sweet's actions and skills speak for that.

 

[Meowthkip]

If Seth MacFarlane said it. you'd be falling all over yourselves laughing. Admit it.

No, because I respect myself as a human being.

 

[Shadow Fox]

I love that Sweet's immediate reaction to the suggestion that he talk to someone instead of just wallowing in his own misery forever is "That's what Chris does! You're trying to make me like him! LIBERAL PLOY!"

In all likelihood, it was one of the Herald staffers angry over me nearly shutting down the paper with my TV ratings column and jeopardizing their graduation plans.

The post he links to here says nothing at all about Sweet almost getting the paper shut down or jeopardizing anyone's graduation plans but his own. He's just making up conspiracy theories as he goes now.

(and, no, that wasn't the place I spent eight hours in; that, I believe, was Great River Medical Center, which is about 20 miles away and near a very, shall we say, urban part of town that I don't like being in during the day, much less after dark).

1.) By "urban" he means "black" and therefore "scary"; 2.) he probably wouldn't have had to walk through that part of town at night if he hadn't wasted eight hours bumbling around the hospital waiting for someone to come to his rescue; and 3) he's still a chucklefuck for not being able to read signs or ask for help finding a phone.

Then again, you know how men hate to ask for directions! [canned laughter]

I swear to God, you choose the piddliest little things to get mad about in my work.

When were we complaining about your stupid Italian gag recently, Sweets? Most of us were commenting on the horrible layout and unreadability of the New Year's comic page you posted. But you can't come up with a rebuttal to those criticisms, so might as well try to derail the conversation to another topic in which you feel you're completely justified:

Look, I make no apologies. It's just how I lived and how I was taught. So learn to deal.

Of course you don't, Sweetums. And hey, y'know, most of us were taught that racism and bigotry were things to be shunned and ridiculed, so maybe you should learn to deal.

[CUT TO the outside of the AJM Studios building. The sun drops and the moon rises as I continue talking. The moon drops, and the sun rises. I'm still talking.]

[CUT TO Shadow Fox's work cubicle, where she cringes in embarrassment at someone trying to prove their point using cartoony stage directions.]

...The point is, my work is what the people really want, and soon they will embrace me just as they did as when I was a bright, ambitious 21-year-old columnist 18 years ago.

How long has Sweetie Belle been producing his comic? How many copies has he sold during that time? How much positive recognition has he received for it? How many minds and hearts has he changed during the comic's run?

Spoiler

"Way too long" and "zero."

bright, ambitious

>Jonathan M. Sweet
>BRIGHT AND AMBITIOUS

 

[DrChristianTroy]

The point is, my work is what the people really want, and soon they will embrace me just as they did as when I was a bright, ambitious 21-year-old columnist 18 years ago.

Well he's wrong there. People want comics they can read without needing a map to figure out the sequencing.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

The post he links to here says nothing at all about Sweet almost getting the paper shut down or jeopardizing anyone's graduation plans but his own. He's just making up conspiracy theories as he goes now.

If Jon puts a link up to prove his point that leads back here or to his comic, guaranteed that there's nothing there that illustrates that point. Absolutely guaranteed. "My brother stole my money from me and drained my bank account! Look here at my comic!" And here we see Jon's comic, ripping off some old cartoons... and that's it.

When were we complaining about your stupid Italian gag recently, Sweets? Most of us were commenting on the horrible layout and unreadability of the New Year's comic page you posted. But you can't come up with a rebuttal to those criticisms, so might as well try to derail the conversation to another topic in which you feel you're completely justified:

Jon is made out of a combination of carbon, desperation, and failure (and I suspect a healthy dose of stink as well). You're absolutely right, he did hit on an old, olllld point, and he did the same thing in the AJM forum when he recently (March 24) responded to something Treenbeen said back in March 9th. You're absolutely right; Jon can't come up with workable responses to what we say that don't involve unlikely conspiracy theories or pertinent details he "suddenly remembered", so he has to scrounge up old points to try and win here. Which he doesn't.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If Jon puts a link up to prove his point that leads back here or to his comic[...]

It's apparently part of Sweet's debate style that's been brought up before:

I have a strategy for debating: wear down my opponent with every conceivable counter-argument so they tire and lose focus, get them screaming and red-faced, and then record their angry responses for use later[...]

But yeah, Sweet seems to never link to news or academic articles.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

It's apparently part of Sweet's debate style that's been brought up before:


But yeah, Sweet seems to never link to news or academic articles.

Strangely enough when I used that strategy against him here he ragequit like a bitch.

 

[Meowthkip]

Strangely enough when I used that strategy against him here he ragequit like a bitch.

I guess you proved that it worked!

 

[Picklechu]

Sweetums, can you prove that the people "want" your comic? As has been pointed out, your sales are extraordinarily low (I suspect that they are nonexistent), and sales are typically an indicator of whether or not a product is something "the people really want." You can't claim that it's some sort of ideology thing, as both the liberals and the conservatives in this thread (myself included in the latter camp) find your comics to be disgusting, racist, unreadable pieces of garbage. It's not a generational thing, considering, once again, your low sales and criticisms from people from multiple age groups. It can't be a matter of sex, as both men and women hate your comic. The same goes for sexual orientation, race, religion (or lack thereof), and a multitude of other factors. So please, enlighten us, how is your comic, which is disliked by virtually everyone on the planet who is aware of it but you, what people want, especially when your sales are so low?

 

[Holdek]

Sweetums, can you prove that the people "want" your comic? As has been pointed out, your sales are extraordinarily low (I suspect that they are nonexistent), and sales are typically an indicator of whether or not a product is something "the people really want." You can't claim that it's some sort of ideology thing, as both the liberals and the conservatives in this thread (myself included in the latter camp) find your comics to be disgusting, racist, unreadable pieces of garbage. It's not a generational thing, considering, once again, your low sales and criticisms from people from multiple age groups. It can't be a matter of sex, as both men and women hate your comic. The same goes for sexual orientation, race, religion (or lack thereof), and a multitude of other factors. So please, enlighten us, how is your comic, which is disliked by virtually everyone on the planet who is aware of it but you, what people want, especially when your sales are so low?

He's going to say that he first has to be offered interviews with The Herald to get the word out, and then people will come flocking to buy them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I was thinking of something - remember "that bookstore in Blytheville"?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ThatBookstoreInBlythevilleAR.jpg

If you'll recall, Sweet photoshopped a picture of it to be "that bookstore in [j-word] junction". What if Sweet tried to sell books that he wrote and/or Belch Dimension at that Blytheville bookstore IRL, but they rejected, thus earning the bookstore a spot of contempt in the comics?

This is purely conjecture at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened.

he ragequit

I was thinking something like that too:

We have a strategy for debating Sweet: wear down our opponent with every conceivable counter-argument so he tires and loses focus, get him screaming and red-faced, and then record his angry responses for use later

But really, my goal in particular isn't to "wear Sweet down" or get him to ragequit. I'd like it if he'd get over his past grudges, for one. But apparently, pointing out what one sees as Sweet doing wrong and how Sweet can improve is apparently a "ploy" and "progressives roadblocking him", according to Sweet.

 

[sonichuis44]

I've been spending the afternoon looking around the lolcow forum, and I have to say, so far this is my favorite one. He's even more more stubbornly, self-destructively delusional than Pixyteri. Then again, I'm an idiot bleeding heart LIEberal DEMONcrat, so what do I know?

 

[autism420]

Spoiler: lol

Posters are blaming @Treenbeen for us taking notice of Sweets.

He also posted some more comics but I can't even read his chickenscratch.

 

[The I Scream Man]

I went into a den of lions alone, and I got the claws.

This is the part that sticks out to me. He willingly admits he brought this on himself, and yet it's supposed to be all of their problems now? Seeing as we're just attacking their entire forum and every poster on it mindlessly?

Are we even talking about the same website any more? Is this real life?

 

[melty]

It's apparently part of Sweet's debate style that's been brought up before:


But yeah, Sweet seems to never link to news or academic articles.

You know, I never thought about it but whenever someone brags about how their debate style totally brings their opponents to their knees in tears, in reality they are usually shit at debating.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Sweet-y Pie, no one here gives a fuck about those forums or anyone on them but you. Stop trying to drag them into your autistic hell and just talk to us directly.

Also I approve of being called a Kiwi fruit. They are delicious.