Sinfest

Sinfest is a long-running American webcomic by Tatsuya Ishida. Updating daily, Sinfest started as a black comedy strip in January 2000. It covers such topics as American politics, organized religion, and radical feminism.

• The Devil: You're just jealous cuz I'm more popular than you.
  God: Talk to the hand.
  • "Devil Puppet 3" (February 13, 2000)

• Slick: This world you created is a bust! It's a full-on hellhole! What gives?!
  God: Well, it's a sort of work in progress. It's open to interpretation and functions on multiple levels.
  • "Creator 2" (May 28, 2000)

• Seymour: [shouting] Praise the Lord! Go to church! Save your soul! Repent now! God is watching!
  The Devil: [to God] You need better representation.
  • "Better PR" (February 1, 2001)

• Slick: Christmas… Chanukkah… Kwanzaa, Agnostica, Ramadan, Boxing Day.
  Monique: Let's celebrate them all!
  • "Holidays" (December 15, 2002)

• Slick: Existence. I ponder it most ponderously.
  Monique: As do I. I am like Philosophocles.
  • "Pretentious" (July 9, 2003)

• Seymour: You're in our schools! Our courts! Our ballparks! Our money! You're everywhere!
  God: I just want to be in your heart.
  • "In Your Heart" (November 23, 2004)

• Monique: Are you Catholic? Protestant? Baptist? Muslim? Hindu? What are You?
  God: Labels…
  • "Emo God" (September 25, 2005)

• Pooch: You're back! You were gone, and now you're back!
  Percy: Yeah, yeah. Don't make a big deal of it.
  • "You're Back" (December 21, 2005)

• Criminy: I fortify myself with facts. Arm myself with information. Empower myself with wisdom… then I hide away.
  • "Fort" (August 23, 2006)

• Seymour: God is a benevolent ruler!
  Lil' Evil: Don't believe the hype.
  • "Protest" (May 7, 2007)

• Squigley: I only eat to fill the emptiness in my life. It's how I fend off the despairing angst of my meaningless existence.
  Monique: Pass the fries.
  • "Fill The Emptiness" (January 18, 2008)

• Monique: Dear Congress. Hi! How ya doin'? Hope I'm not bothering you. Just wanted to ask a favor. Could you possibly, maybe, if it's not too much trouble… represent us???!
  • "Dear Congress" (October 3, 2008)

• Monique: People think I'm a demon…
  Slick: God thinks I'm a monster.
  • "Message in a Bottle 2" (March 1, 2009)

• Slick: What do you want? Name it and I'll get it for you!
  Monique: World peace.
  Slick: You got it! Wait here! [On phone] Hello? Sinister shadow government responsible for all the wars in human history? Stop it!
  • "Epiphany" (May 13, 2009)

• Fuchsia: Does it bother you that I'm a devil girl? That I have horns and a tail and shoot fire from my hands and the fact that I'm not normal in any way, shape or form whatsoever?
  Criminy: Only if it bothers you.
  • "Does It Bother You?" (June 18, 2010)

• Fuchsia: Did you really come down here to save me?
  Criminy: Yes. Well, no. Not to save you. Just to be with you.
  • "Just To Be With You" (September 28, 2010)

• Slick: Look, I don't know if you sent a million men to hell… but I do know for a fact that you pulled me out of there.
  Monique: I did?
  Slick: Yeah. Twice. So it all evens out.
  • "Even" (December 17, 2010)

• Fuchsia: Would you ever take a bullet for me?
  Criminy: Yes… I believe I would…
  • "Cupid 6" (February 19, 2011)

• Blue: Your brain's turned to mush ever since you met him.
  Fuchsia: Him? Who? I don't know what you're taking about!
  • "Auditing Souls 3" (October 2, 2011)

• Xanthe: Bare midriff! Patriarchally sanctioned fashion trope that encourages the objectification of women!
  • "The Sisterhood" (October 3, 2011)

• Slick: There's nothing wrong with admiring the female form…
  Xanthe: No mansplaining.
  Slick: "Mansplaining"?
  Xanthe: You are awash in male privilege and heteronormative assumptions about gender performativity.
  Slick: Hetero what?
  Xanthe: Heteronormative assumptions about gender performativity.
  Slick: In English, please?
  • "The Sisterhood 3" (October 5, 2011)

• Xanthe: This is the patriarchy. A social-interactive construct that bombards us with misogyny.
  • "The Sisterhood 7" (October 9, 2011)

• Xanthe: And there will be justice.
  • "Going Home" (April 27, 2012)

• Xanthe: Pornography and prostitution are the main pillars of male supremacy and must be eradicated for the liberation of women everywhere.
  • "Password" (January 25, 2013)

• The first seven years it was coffee and revenge. That's what kept me going. My attitude was, "I'll show them. I'll show them all!"
  • Tatsuya Ishida, as quoted in "The Wages of Sinfest" (archived), Laura Hudson, Publishers Weekly (2009-06-09)

• The webcomics landscape looked incredibly different back then, with what comparatively few comics there were mostly being about video game humor, sporadically updated and crudely drawn. But Tatsuya Ishida's Sinfest stood out in that he was one of the few web cartoonists who seemed to know art, updated regularly, and didn't do tons of video game jokes that I didn't understand.
  • Sean Kleefeld: "On Tatsuya Ishida". Kleefeld on Comics (2024-04-08).

• Sinfest archives