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

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

The Mold Kingdom is about 4 hours away from me. That's too far for a cheap laugh and possible death by black mold.

Or possible decapitation by the kingdom's lord high executioner with his cheap and chippy bone knife.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

I wonder if Sweets will be looking at all the newfangled costumes the children are wearing and wondering why no one is dressed up as his old cartoon characters anymore.

... I'm also wondering if anyone ever told him that he's too old to trick or treat.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

New journal: https://archive.is/RXg63

 

[wheat pasta]

I wish he'd do away with the stick-arms. It really takes a lot away from the potential quality of his art.

Spoiler: The Drawing, if you didn't wanna look at his journal for it

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Artwork that is somehow even lazier than Hanna-Barbara.

That's an achievement.

 

[The I Scream Man]

Are we absolutely certain we're not all suffering from a collective acid flashback? That cover

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

I wish he'd do away with the stick-arms. It really takes a lot away from the potential quality of his art.

Spoiler: The Drawing, if you didn't wanna look at his journal for it

Jon apparently really felt the need to show us a generous shot of that animal's crotch.

Also: "our, our, we've, we." Who's he talking about? It's just him!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I wish he'd do away with the stick-arms.

Doesn't Sweet insist that the stick figure drawings are a "unique style with a certain charm?"

The Mold Kingdom is about 4 hours away from me.

You know how Shaner apparently thinks there's only a few Kiwis living near him? I wonder if Sweet thinks all the critics live near him as well?

Anyway, it's nice to see Sweet making a journal entry without talking about college, the paper, or "liberal ploys" for once.

 

[Shadow Fox]

I wish he'd do away with the stick-arms. It really takes a lot away from the potential quality of his art.

Spoiler: The Drawing, if you didn't wanna look at his journal for it

I think this is the worst dog he's drawn yet. Jesus H. Christ. I'm not even sure if that's actually supposed to be a dog and not some kind of Frankenstein'd cow with severed human limbs grafted onto it at odd angles. And a vagina.

Fuck.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

I think this is the worst dog he's drawn yet. Jesus H. Christ. I'm not even sure if that's actually supposed to be a dog and not some kind of Frankenstein'd cow with severed human limbs grafted onto it at odd angles. And a vagina.

Fuck.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who initially thought it was some kind of mutant cow in the throes of a grand mal seizure.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

I think this is the worst dog he's drawn yet. Jesus H. Christ. I'm not even sure if that's actually supposed to be a dog and not some kind of Frankenstein'd cow with severed human limbs grafted onto it at odd angles. And a vagina.

Fuck.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who initially thought it was some kind of mutant cow in the throes of a grand mal seizure.

Jon Carpenter's The Belch Dimension.

 

[DrJonesHat]

See, here's the thing: We mock his drawing skills, but there's a certain niche market that would think Sweet was great. He just needs to clean up the panels and switch to GIMP or something to edit his drawings, or just create his comics entirely digitally. I know he'd say his current method works juuuuuuuust fine, but really, as a web comic, he could develop a small but loyal following.

 

[Mahimahi]

Criminy! Has Sweets ever seen a dog before? They don't have human feet; they have paws. He could have at least Googled a pic of Scooby Doo for reference. Holy shit.

But the thing that puzzles me most is why he can't plan speech bubbles that don't have hyphenated word breaks at the end of every second line. Surely it can't be that hard.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

switch to GIMP or something

GIMP can be difficult at times to learn to the average person who is "tech savvy" by Sweetish standards. I imagine that Sweet would probably have a really difficult time learning it at best.

 

[melty]

So the spiders and mosquitoes in Sweet's room are all the fault of the government taking away his light bulbs. That's quite possibly one of the most insane things I've ever read, and I've read plenty of Marijan's ramblings.

Looking at the pictures, I try to rationalize that he's not possibly living this poorly. The spider webs are old and it's a spare room so he just hasn't cleared them away, I think. I don't know why I give anyone the benefit of the doubt because I'm always wrong and of course not only are the webs fresh and crawling with spiders but there are also swarms of mosquitos every night. I think the various homeless people living in tents around my city actually have cleaner and more sanitary living conditions.
Sweet, do you realize normal human beings who take care of their homes don't have spider webs and mosquitoes everywhere? I've lived in a bunch of different places. I once lived in the woods in a pretty old house that got a lot of insects. It was NO WHERE near this bad.
My god Sweet is worse than this scene and this is satire

Short story, Charlie lives in a shithole and he eats cat food and huffs glue to fall asleep faster so he doesn't have to listen to the hundreds of cats yowling outside all night, Dee points out if he didn't have cat food everywhere then there wouldn't be any cats and he explains he needs them to scare away all the rats. As insane as this is, Sweet's weird spider/mosquito symbiosis is far worse and also Charlie doesn't somehow blame the government.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

So the spiders and mosquitoes in Sweet's room are all the fault of the government taking away his light bulbs.

Of course, as you probably already know, Sweet blames the government and politics for pretty much everything he perceives as wrong in his life, from getting kicked out of ASU and the Herald to not being "tech savvy" (read: normally competent).

And once again, the "house is full of spider webs because the government took away his bug zappers incandescent bulbs" claim is yet another example of Sweet attempting to defend himself but ending up looking even more incompetent than before the attempt.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

New journal: https://archive.is/fwaLu
Photo warning!

 

[The I Scream Man]

oh my god sir what is this

help my sides please, save them not me

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Those are scary, but not for the reason that Sweets was probably going for.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Photo warning!

wat

Spoiler

OK, more thought out post: I see Sweet hasn't given up on wearing a cap full of buttons and pins.

At least Sweet has gone 2 entries now without mentioning college or the Herald.