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

[ToroidalBoat]

(Were you an English major, or a psychology major?)

I believe I have found Sweet's userpage on Wikipedia, in which he discusses his college education (Sweet also fancies himself a "horror" author):

A graduate of Arkansas State University, he was a psychology and English major, a member of the honor society Pi Gamma Mu, and a staffer for The Herald.

Also, the name "Iconoclast" is explained. And surprisingly, it comes from a cartoon:

His screen name comes from a Pinky and the Brain short, "Puppet Rulers", in which Brain, posing as a kiddie-show host, called himself, "The Iconoclast, an unconventional eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drummer".

Not only that, but apparently, the userpage used to be a lot more soapboxy and promotional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:The_Iconoclast&action=history

Here's what it was like before the cleanup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:The_Iconoclast&diff=564548428&oldid=564333643

...which included this apparently ironic statement:

..[L]iberals don't have anything new to offer. They haven't seriously updated their playbook in over thirty years. It's worn-out, tattered, stained[...] Its emphasis on the culture of victimhood[...]

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Christ, he's ---->.<------ this close to getting it!

..[L]iberals don't have anything new to offer. They haven't seriously updated their playbook in over thirty years. It's worn-out, tattered, stained[...]

Phew, that's better

 

[Rin]

Btw, found this page very recently. Remember the story about the guy with the time portal who wanted to go back to college? The one where Sweet seemed to demonstrate a shocking amount of self-awareness? I believe this is the page that preceded it.

I'm sorry, I'm too distracted by the fact that Sweet had the lack of foresight to name a character Clint when using an all-caps font.

 

[Le Bateleur]

Oh wow.

As brilliant as those "You Liberals and Blacks Are Stupid" troll comics from the CWCki were, the page that @He Sets Me On Fire posted must be the definitive cartoon criticism of our Sweetian hero - and it's drawn by his own hand. He's an incredible paradox - such obliviousness and such brutal self-honesty in one person.

Also, why can't he draw fingers? Here for example (note too the placement of the hand...ew)

The thumb is almost as long as the index finger.

Now look at this:

The only way that his thumb would be closest to his eyes is if his palm was also facing the viewer. As it's drawn, the thumb is on the wrong side of the hand. (Insert Arkansas joke here.)

And finally, my favourite:

I don't know where to start with this. SweetMom's hand is like an elephant with an incredibly long tail. It's hilarious.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

Oh god, I just noticed that Sweet's self-insert, in the panel where his hand is backwards (thumb closest to his eyes, the second to last in @Le Bateleur's post), has the same "bean mouth" as Papaya Kitty/Purple Kecleon draws on all of her characters. Horseshoe Theory in art: the SJW cartoonist whose world is purple and pervy meets the far-right crazy cartoonist whose world is a giant conspiracy theory, and pervy.

 

[Holdek]

Anyway, yeah, Sweet could just stop replying to the thread and go do other stuff. Then this thread would eventually die down (like it did before Sweet posted on the first page of the thread that got the whole drama rolling) - sinking into the sediment of old threads like the Homer thread or the Cropperb thread.

Oh shit, there's a Cropper B thread? He's a personal fave of mine.

I just looked on the very last page of the forum for a random example.

I looked and it turns out I actually started that thread. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/cropperb.708/ I've officially been here too long.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

such brutal self-honesty

Nah. Just like with that one comic about the ASU guy getting pied, Sweet sees reasonable stances against his worldview as "ploys." From his perspective, the words of Not Mama Sweet in that time travel comic are probably more or less "nonsense."

 

[Le Bateleur]

Horseshoe Theory in art: the SJW cartoonist whose world is purple and pervy meets the far-right crazy cartoonist whose world is a giant conspiracy theory, and pervy.

Come to think of it, it's both merciful and surprising that Sweet never draws out-and-out fetish art - especially since it's one of the only ways he might conceivably make money.

Nah. Just like with that one comic about the ASU guy getting pied, Sweet sees reasonable stances against his worldview as "ploys." From his perspective, the words of Not Mama Sweet in that time travel comic are probably more or less "nonsense."

I'd have to read the comic again, but I think that Jonichu goes on to foil Comic!Sweet's time-travel scheme. I'm working under the assumption that Jonichu is Sweet's authorial mouthpiece, and thus while he might want the reader to pity Comic!Sweet rather than laugh at him, he still doesn't see him as being correct in this instance. Just my take, though.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'd have to read the comic again

All I've seen of that story are those 2 pages. Did Sweet upload the rest somewhere else?

 

[Le Bateleur]

All I've seen of that story are those 2 pages. Did Sweet upload the rest somewhere else?

They might be on his ImageShack. Alternatively I might have been going off the plot summaries Sweet posts on his website.

Incidentally, found what may be an unseen Sweet Bro picture:

Spoiler: Let's go hang around the graveyard - but first, lemme take a selfie!

Some observations:
This looks like a selfie taken in a graveyard. Who does that?
Pretty good shot of the Button Cap of Fail. Does he only have the one Cap of Fail, or are there several, like CWC's rugby shirts?
What's up with his mouth?

EDIT:

Even when he's clearly working from a photographic base...Sweet Bro cannot draw fingers. They are to him as drinking straws are to Chris.

(Please could a super-talented Kiwi artist do a version of the Oversized Drinking Straw picture with Sweet Bro instead of Chris?)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[pic]

>LADIES...

Maybe it's an Attraction Image?

Spoiler

Really though, I think Sweet is trying to come off as either contemplative or easygoing in the pics he takes of himself. Like author portraits on dust jackets of books.

 

[Pizza The Hutt]

They might be on his ImageShack. Alternatively I might have been going off the plot summaries Sweet posts on his website.

Incidentally, found what may be an unseen Sweet Bro picture:

Spoiler: Let's go hang around the graveyard - but first, lemme take a selfie!

View attachment 45977

Some observations:
This looks like a selfie taken in a graveyard. Who does that?
Pretty good shot of the Button Cap of Fail. Does he only have the one Cap of Fail, or are there several, like CWC's rugby shirts?
What's up with his mouth?

EDIT:

Even when he's clearly working from a photographic base...Sweet Bro cannot draw fingers. They are to him as drinking straws are to Chris.

View attachment 45978

(Please could a super-talented Kiwi artist do a version of the Oversized Drinking Straw picture with Sweet Bro instead of Chris?)

Not to speak ill of the dead, but is it normal to put the "Prof" honorific on one's headstone? Seems kind of douche-y to me...

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

They might be on his ImageShack. Alternatively I might have been going off the plot summaries Sweet posts on his website.

Incidentally, found what may be an unseen Sweet Bro picture:

Spoiler: Let's go hang around the graveyard - but first, lemme take a selfie!

View attachment 45977

Some observations:
This looks like a selfie taken in a graveyard. Who does that?
Pretty good shot of the Button Cap of Fail. Does he only have the one Cap of Fail, or are there several, like CWC's rugby shirts?
What's up with his mouth?

EDIT:

Even when he's clearly working from a photographic base...Sweet Bro cannot draw fingers. They are to him as drinking straws are to Chris.

View attachment 45978

(Please could a super-talented Kiwi artist do a version of the Oversized Drinking Straw picture with Sweet Bro instead of Chris?)

Jeez. A face like a car accident. And he expects women to be attracted to that?

Remember when he put up a picture of that turd he was so proud of? This is probably the face he made during the effort. Or when he's masturbating. Or when he's trying to figure out how to store data without a CD-ROM.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

1. Does he have his sweatshirt on backwards?

2. Is he posing in front of a headstone that says "Prof." for some horrible ASU-related reason? (Because of the 188x birthdate, I'm not entirely sure it was one of his professors.)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Seems kind of douche-y to me...

Maybe now, but not in half-past 1800-something?

Also, you know you live in a boring place when a graveyard is an exciting place to take pictures in.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

So I wondered what Jon would look like without facial hair and brought out the gimp:

Anyone want to shop him without his hat?

Edit: Found this pic on his imageShack, entitled "Dad".

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

Well, there's something nice we can truthfully say about Sweet: he is obviously a legitimate child.

Okay, looking at Dad, I'm not sure if that's "nice." But he sure is his father's son.

 

[MrsFrizzle]

Sweetmum is very pretty, too.

That graveyard photo is fucking horrifying.

 

[Shadow Fox]

He's desperately trying to explain the "hot craps" but let's think about it. It took place in a restroom and we know Jon has a fart fetish. It may be legitimate term for the game, but we know where Sweet's mind really was when he wrote that.

Unfortunately, we can also imagine where his hand was.

Personally, I love this comic book cover he uploaded:

Spoiler: when you see it you'll shit brix

And then there's this bizarre, malformed dog:

Spoiler: drawing aminals is hard!

- wtf is up with the anatomy on its left hind leg
- why is its right hind leg just sticking out like that
- how goddamn many toes does this mutant freak have
- the sash is apparently slung over the dog's right shoulder and between all four of its legs, which I suppose might account for its unnatural posture
- the tail part is lumpy
- I cannot tell what the tiny scrawl beside the dog's mouth says, but it looks like "ERP!" to me, which leads me to believe that the dog has eaten a Girl Scout and stolen parts of her uniform to satisfy its perverse desires
- it looks like this cover might have been rendered in marker or watercolor, which is genuinely refreshing compared to the awful MS Paint coloring jobs on most of his work
- seriously how hard is it to look at a drawing of a cartoon dog and see how the artist rendered the different aspects of its anatomy, there are literal 13-year-olds on deviantArt who have taught themselves how to do this

ETA I can't remember if anyone's already posted this photo of The Artist as a Young Tard, ca.1991:

Spoiler: Before his hair migrated from his head to his jowls.

And an unfunny mashup of John's obsession with sumptuous college buffets and his cat hoard:

Spoiler: I think.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

Unfortunately, we can also imagine where his hand was.

Personally, I love this comic book cover he uploaded:

Spoiler: when you see it you'll shit brix

Say, that shot on the cover's really similar to this one (forgive the arrows, I added those for another post):

Maybe he took two shots in that position?

- the tail part is lumpy

Um .... are we sure that's a tail?

And yeah, for whatever reason, Jon is always drawing that dog with one of his hind legs pointing out and lying flat on the ground. At least this time it looks like a leg. That left leg, though, geeez ....

EDIT: You know, it just occurred to me how utterly self-obsessed Jon is with that cover. It's not enough to have the main character with all the super powers as his avatar. It's not enough to make up anagrams of his name as the staff of the comic. It's not enough that he keeps telling the same stupid stories of all the times he failed at college over and over and over again. No, that's not enough; here, he has to put his big, hairy tumor of a face on the cover. The guy just can't celebrate himself enough!