Sinfest

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Being a webcomic that updated almost daily for 16 years, Sinfest has a significant amount of archived strips (over about 5500 strips), making thus a efficient research on them a very difficult task. Therefore, helpful assistence on finding relevant images examples and information about the comic is welcomed.

About

Sinfest is a webcomic created by on January 17th, 2000, dealing with "contemporary issues and religion." Originally a satirical comicstrip that used black humor and political incorrectness to parody popular culture, it grew famous due to the emergence in late 2011 of radical feminist elements, such as the sisterhood or the patriarchy,whose presence changed the strip's scope to social justice ethics.

History

Prior to the online launch of the strip, Ishida published a primitive form of Sinfest on UCLA's newspaper Daily Bruin since October 16th, 1991, while he attended the university; according to him, the strip was cruder, than the . The strip was posted online in a traditional monochromatic coloring, until a breakup with the webcomic portal Keenspot on July 9, 2006 led to the redesign of the site and the introduction of colorful sunday strips. A second redesign was lauched in june 1st, 2014.

Highlights

Running Gags

Along its run, Sinfest created a series of running gags, that often aided the story arc of the strip; over the years only some of the gags reached present day. Some notorious running gags include "Calligraphy"(still in run), "You Had to be There", "mars needs women" among others.

Sunday Strips

Sunday strips are a site feature that mimics the newspapers' sunday comic strip format. Being first launched

"The Sisterhood"/Social Justice Rethorics

The sisterhood is a group of militant third wave femenists that first appeared in February 7, 2007, resurging in October 3th, 2011, with their social justice ideals and definitive form defined.

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