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

[Big Nasty]

Jon Sweet looks like the beast-man in Beast in Heat.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

I found a treasure trove of new AJM Studios archives in another dark corner of the internet (details here).

Among this new haul was a find that brought joy to my black heart:

Not only do we get to see what Jonichu looks like all grown up, but the interview contains some classic Sweet Bro Unintentional Access Humor.

So horrifying. Yet so compelling. Thanks, @Absinthe.

Here's the Reader's Digest version, with marginalia.

". . . someone says the wrong thing to me and the teeth come out."

The idiom you're groping for, you illiterate twat, is "the claws come out." If your teeth come out, you've got other issues to deal with. Your writing sucks ass.

"This forum [AJM], I like. No one's cussing at each other, there don't seem to be any old grudges that keep getting dredged up over and over again pointlessly . . ."

Except your old grudges, of course, which have now destroyed the entire site.

"I'd say I'm pretty live-and-let-live."

Until you decide to crush in someone's skull with a metal pipe, stalk and harass people for 20 years or -- if she's a trampy little underage vixen -- conspire to commit statutory rape.

"Today's conservative is a younger, hipper breed."

You're young. You're hip. And you've posted photos to prove it.

". . . the marshmallow moderates, the RINOs, the sunshine soldiers . . ."

Once again, you get it wrong. For someone who thinks he's some kind of journalist, you churn out an utterly astonishing number of factual errors. The phrase you're misquoting is "summer soldier and sunshine patriot." Your writing sucks ass. Have I mentioned that?

"I begged them to rehire me. That just made things worse. Basically I wound up having to leave school . . ."

A real journalist might sum it up a bit differently: "I stalked and harassed those people constantly for more than a year before the university expelled me because of my sociopathic behavior. But I gave them a good dose of terroristic threats before I left."

". . . that's what liberalism does. It takes something beautiful and then chokes it and twists it and turns it to something hideous."

Then liberalism puts something beautiful in the trunk and takes it home and down to the basement and taunts it. "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again." Or maybe you're projecting.

". . . my IQ's 137 . . ."

I wonder how many times you had to take that online quiz to get that result. And the only people who brag (almost always falsely) about their IQs are failures at life.

"Yeah, I like to go on long walks around town. The quiet helps me think. I go to the post office a lot. I pick up aluminum cans by the roadside. I used to do yard sales every Saturday for a couple summers. Sometimes I go into the woods."

Left out: "All of the neighbors have installed high-intensity security lights and 9-foot fences topped with razor wire." And everything about that last sentence is unintentionally alarming.

"A neighbor who reads one of my pieces real closely might recognize my description of their house. [chuckles]"

The neighbor might also recognize your description of the interior of his daughter's bedroom as seen from the woods through a powerful pair of binoculars. (And that chuckles is extremely creepy.)

"And I think this event really colored--if you'll pardon the small bon mot--my views on race relations."

No. I don't think we will pardon either your racist slur or your ludicrous description of it as a "bon mot."

"I'm a social commentator, holding up a mirror to the world . . ."

Let's not be so quick to dismiss the possibility that you're just a steaming order of racist sociopath with a large plate of mental illness on the side.

"It was my mom's idea, actually, to do a comic book. I thought it was a great idea, because I was feeling limited by the conventional book format . . ."

Yes, many people who have to steal plots and characters and who can't write dialog feel somewhat limited by the those conventional formats.

"I debuted the first few pages of BDC in a Stephen King message board on April 15, 2005. It went over like a lead balloon. One critic claimed her 5-year-old daughter drew just like me. A few issues later the critiques had become downright abuse, mockery, and insults. The mod told me I was stupid to try to sell a comic book online when there were plenty of free webcomics out there. He said there would be no more talk of my comic book there, locked and deleted a number of my threads, and banned me from the forums. Which, again, proves my whole point about liberals."

And 10 years later, the critics are still saying exactly the same thing. Which continues to prove your whole point about liberals.

"Slasher flicks. Buckets of blood. Man, I love that stuff."

And going "into the woods." And hanging out at the post office. And stalking people. And making terroristic threats. Nothing to see here. Please move along.

 

[John Titor]

I think we should find this Stephen King forum, if it still exists.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Belch Dimension Comicsare very fun to read....
Thank you. They're very fun to draw.
...and many AJM STUDIOS members love reading your updates.
Thanks. I must admit audience reaction to the series seems to be very split along party lines so far.

The AJM user is ass-patting Sweets as hard as possible...

I strongly suspect that what we're seeing is Mr. Sweet interviewing himself. His long history of writing about himself in the third person supports this suspicion.

And the responses are clearly not transcriptions of Mr. Sweet's replies to an actual interviewer. They share too many of the typographic errors common on his websites, chief among them being the missing spaces before and after italicized words and phrases. It is also highly suspicious that the "interviewer" inserts so many parentheticals accurately identifying the subjects of Mr. Sweet's vocal impersonations and explaining the meaning of every word Mr. Sweet uses that he thinks his ignorant audience won't understand -- something he does constantly in the endless notes that accompany his pathetically inept comics.

EDIT: Subsequent posts by @Shadow Fox and @AJMLurker make good points in suggesting that AJM just sent Mr. Sweet a list of questions and that Mr. Sweet then wrote up answers to sound like an in-person Q&A session, with all of the editorial parentheticals inserted by Our Hero his own self. I was also unaware that AJM had a series of these "interviews."

 

[melty]

Did anyone else read the interview in pierce hawthorne 's voice?

 

[Shadow Fox]

I strongly suspect that what we're seeing is Mr. Sweet interviewing himself. His long history of writing about himself in the third person supports this suspicion.

And the responses are clearly not transcriptions of Mr. Sweet's replies to an actual interviewer. They share too many of the typographic errors common on his websites, chief among them being the missing spaces before and after italicized words and phrases. It is also highly suspicious that the "interviewer" inserts so many parentheticals accurately identifying the subjects of Mr. Sweet's vocal impersonations and explaining the meaning of every word Mr. Sweet uses that he thinks his ignorant audience won't understand -- something he does constantly in the endless notes that accompany his pathetically inept comics.

I assumed that Sweetums was actually being interviewed by another AJMer via text, as in the interviewer sent him a list of questions to which Sweets typed in his replies. I mean, I wouldn't put it past Sweetie to "interview" himself, as he's done so elsewhere, but it's also not outside the realm of possibility for one of the other AJM members to have done so.

 

[Le Bateleur]

I cut a lot of derivative characters from the early stories

Spoiler: And nothing derivative remained

The artwork was a little raw, but I thought that was part of its charm, sort of early Simpsons meets Jay Ward.

Spoiler: Early Simpsons meets Jay Ward

I sent black-and-white copies of the first few pages to DC and Archie Comics. I never heard back from DC, but I got a letter from Archie saying they only use in-house characters and talent. Most of the big houses don't even look at an unsolicited manuscript for fear of legal problems, so that was probably a standard boilerplate letter. They probably never even cracked open the envelope.

Spoiler: I never heard back from DC

Spoiler: Fear of legal problems

Yes, well...burritos come ten in a pack for $2.79--very reasonably-priced.

Spoiler: Too easy

we do enjoy eating good food like most everyone, including You!

I assumed that Sweetums was actually being interviewed by another AJMer via text, as in the interviewer sent him a list of questions to which Sweets typed in his replies. I mean, I wouldn't put it past Sweetie to "interview" himself, as he's done so elsewhere, but it's also not outside the realm of possibility for one of the other AJM members to have done so.

I'm pretty sure that's what happened. The interviewer seems to have been "the All-Amazing" AJM himself - the NASCAR question all but confirms it for me (AJM has used NASCAR_RULES as a screen name elsewhere on the internet).

 

[AJMLurker]

Props on digging up that old gem Absinthe. I remember that interview from way long ago, good thing you were able to save it. Some good Sweetness material there.

Yes, Sweet Bro is being "interviewed" by AJM here. This interview was part of a short lived series at AJM STUDIOS called "AJM Interviews". Any member that was willing could be interviewed by the admin to help let other members know about them better. There was about 8 of them total IIRC, Dr. Belch's being the most prominent one.

Anyway, I put interviewed in quotations since Shadow Fox is right on the money. AJM sent him a list of questions and then Sweet Bro filled in the rest. Before it was posted, the interview was edited so it looked like it an actual live conversation that was recorded.

http://www.freewebs.com/smokingcatcomicsandcollectibles/14-00.jpg
The infamous "Broke Black Mountain" cover: social satire, or racist propaganda? You be the judge. This is a image.

One of Sweet's classic quirks. Whenever the guy gets the chance, he'll find a way to plug-in that cover from his shit comic and ask for validation that it isn't "racist". Clearly the dumbass is waiting for someone to finally share his warped views of blacks and agree that cover doesn't come off racist whatsoever.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

One of Sweet's classic quirks. Whenever the guy gets the chance, he'll find a way to plug-in that cover from his shit comic and ask for validation that it isn't "racist". Clearly the dumbass is waiting for someone to finally share his warped views of blacks and agree that cover doesn't come off racist whatsoever.

Mr. Sweet probably characterizes the Ku Klux Klan as a performance-art ensemble that mocks racists by portraying them as bunch of redneck morons who dress up in bed sheets and set fire to crosses. That makes just as much sense as his defense of Broke Black Mountain, with its cast of "Many Coons, Lotta Jiggs, Hugh S. Blackman" and "Cal A. Spade," as some kind of unbiased and insightful commentary on race relations.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

First: Can anyone track down more of Mr. Sweet's blogger.com posts? He seems to have been a member for many years.

Second: Back in 2009 on this site right here, Mr. Sweet -- posting under his childishly idiotic nom de plume Haggis McCrablice -- stumbled upon a fellow cartoonist who shares Mr. Sweet's problem of being unfairly accused of racism because, like Mr. Sweet, he simply draws black people as they actually appear. As you can see from the following image, with the most definitely not racist title "Horrible Mother Monkey," he is about as far from being a racist as it is possible to be.

[GALLERY=media, 325][/GALLERY]

Surprisingly, it took Mr. Sweet until the second paragraph of his reply to turn the topic from politically correct depictions of black people to college seniors having sex with 15-year-old townies.

Here you go:
____________________________

Original Poster said...

"I created something that was indeed intended NOT to be politically correct....Here's comic I drew up in which all 10 of [The Censor Monkeys] participate. In fact, someone found one of my monkeys so politically incorrect that he literally wanted to find me and kill me."

Haggis McCrablice replied...

No doubt he was a guilty white liberal, whom we know of course are absolute bastians [sic] of tolerance. Why, when they want to kill you it's only because they love you...but if we say anything critical about them we're hateful racist Nazis.

Dave, old boy, one of these paragons of love told me that my house and town should be burned down and my family, friends, and neighbors killed because of my work. This came after an image from my series appeared on a leftist website (without my permission, may I add). http://www.freewebs.com/smokingcatcomicsandcollectibles/14-00.jpg
Remember, these are the same sort of people who consider a dictator and brutal killer like Fidel Castro a genius and have no problem with 15-year-old girls propositioning random men for sex on a college campus, but a fairly truthful ink-and-paint depiction of black people [emphasis unnecessarily added, along with the comment "Christ have mercy!"] by a conservative white man utterly frosts them.

Incidentally, a racist is simply anyone who believes another race or group inferior to his own. I think the left throws around this word far too much, ignorant of its meaning, and won't accept that prejudice doesn't exist in a vaccuum; [sic] rather, some groups deserve to be screamed at for not better policing its more loud and unpleasant members. [emphasis added]
____________________________

Based on that last sentence, I think it's about time some lazy-ass white folks get up off their melanin-deficient butts and start policing Mr. Sweet.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Incidentally, a racist is simply anyone who believes another race or group inferior to his own. I think the left throws around this word far too much, ignorant of its meaning, and won't accept that prejudice doesn't exist in a vaccuum; [sic] rather, some groups deserve to be screamed at for not better policing its more loud and unpleasant members. [emphasis added]

Well, ya know, Jon is still a member of this site. In addition, he is "grouped" with the lolcows we talk about. All in all, I think we've done quite a commendable job of policing him.

You're welcome, Jonny!

 

[sonichuis44]

So even by his own definition of racism, he's racist.

 

[MrsFrizzle]

As a lady so white I am nearly translucent, I am doing my level best to police the hell out of this cretin. He is an embarrassment to my race.

 

[DrJonesHat]

I too shall police Sweet. He's not only an embarrassment to white people, he's an embarrassment to the whole damn species.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

Well, ya know, Jon is still a member of this site. In addition, he is "grouped" with the lolcows we talk about. All in all, I think we've done quite a commendable job of policing him.

An excellent point that I had not considered at all. Anyone looking for Mr. Sweet on the Internet will quickly end up at this site, where the truth will set them free. (When I first posted on this issue, I was thinking of what is almost certainly Mr. Sweet's definition of "policing" -- i.e., "silencing forever.")

 

[Yawning Asperchu]

As a lady so white I am nearly translucent, I am doing my level best to police the hell out of this cretin. He is an embarrassment to my race.

I too shall police Sweet. He's not only an embarrassment to white people, he's an embarrassment to the whole damn species.

I wish I had a Semper Fidelis rating to give to you brave souls.

It's sad to see communities steam rolled and wooed into submission by someone like Mr. Sweet.

 

[sonichuis44]

I wish I had a Semper Fidelis rating to give to you brave souls.

It's sad to see communities steam rolled and wooed into submission by someone like Mr. Sweet.

It was AJM's choice. He was confronted with the harsh truth. He could've easily dealt with it. Instead he decided to bury his head in the sand and delete fucking everything rather than facing reality.

A true american hero

 

[Yawning Asperchu]

It was AJM's choice. He was confronted with the harsh truth. He could've easily dealt with it. Instead he decided to bury his head in the sand and delete fucking everything rather than facing reality.

A true american hero

Oh I totally agree (especially about him being a hero)

I was talking about the time period when he had the board more or less whipped after establishing himself as a keyboard liberal killer.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

For those who are archiving Mr. Sweet's life on the Internet, here's another site I don't think has been mentioned yet: All of Mr. Sweet's Posts from Moronika.

Most simply involve him sperging about the Three Stooges, with only one obscene detour into pubic hair and -- as you would expect -- a somewhat lengthier discourses on farting.

But Post No. 12 is worth a look. It includes this gem: "I am a witer [sic] and artist; I deal daily with ignorant people . . ." That's right, other people are ignorant. But he is a "witer." Which reminded me of this.

Mr. Sweet then goes on a nice rant about how he is not -- you guessed it -- a racist (or a wacist). In this illiterate jeremiad, our "witer" also misspells propaganda and menthol, uses we as the object of a preposition, routinely puts punctuation marks outside of quotation marks and uses bigot and homophobe (instead of bigoted and homophobic) as adjectives. You have to wonder if Arkansas State doesn't have a special program that distributes bachelor's degrees in English to people like Mr. Sweet, something along the lines of a participation diploma designed to briefly raise the self-esteem of the gormless eejits and bring fleeting smiles to their MoonPie faces.

 

[Le Bateleur]

For those who are archiving Mr. Sweet's life on the Internet, here's another site I don't think has been mentioned yet: All of Mr. Sweet's Posts from Moronika.

Most simply involve him sperging about the Three Stooges, with only one obscene detour into pubic hair and -- as you would expect -- somewhat lengthier discourses on farting.

But Post No. 12 is worth a look. It includes this gem: "I am a witer [sic] and artist; I deal daily with ignorant people . . ." That's right, other people are ignorant. But he is a "witer." Which reminded me of this.

Mr. Sweet then goes on a nice rant about how he is not -- you guessed it -- a racist (or a wacist). In this illiterate jeremiad, our "witer" also misspells propaganda and menthol, uses we as the object of a preposition, routinely puts punctuation marks outside of quotation marks and uses bigot and homophobe (instead of bigoted and homophobic) as adjectives. You have to wonder if Arkansas State doesn't have a special program that distributes bachelor's degrees in English to people like Mr. Sweet, something along the lines of a participation diploma designed to briefly raise the self-esteem of the gormless eejits and bring fleeting smiles to their MoonPie faces.

That looks like a good find, Dr M! Is it possible that you could take an archive.is copy of the page? Moronika seems to reject Tor connections, and my regular IP range also seems to have been banned because of "spamming accounts"...