Sympathy for the Devil and so on
Please allow me to introduce… the best damned online comic.
With a regular cast including Slick the teenage pimp, smokin’ hot Monique, God, the Devil and a pair of housepets, Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida is one hell of a comic strip. Like none other, it regularly combines beat poetry, kung-fu parodies, hiragana calligraphy lessons, sexy banter, moral debates and the tribulations of a teenage pig so seamlessly to such a hilarious degree.
Especially since the majority of those moral debates happen with the Devil, snazzily dressed and on the ground, versus God’s hand puppets in the sky.
It’s brilliant to say the least, and staggering to discover that more than ten syndicates have turned Ishida down. All the better, though, that they did, as he’s free to put the entire archives (going back to January of 2000) online for easy perusal and enjoyment. It’s a cool site for a cool guy with a cool strip (which has been collected into a cool book).
