#Tatsuya Ishida

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Back in the Fold

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: sssay hello to graham lineham Linehan [wearing tinfoil hat]: freemasons run the country Jesse Singal: but mommy Rowling: i know we were all pretending he didn't exisst for a while Rowling: that changes now

Rowling: sssee hiss extreme levelsss of divorcednesss usssed to be a liability to our hate movement Rowling: but now that being extremely divorced hassss gone mainssstream Rowling: he'sss an asssset! Elon Musk: eyyy you know da jews, they maka my wife leave me

Rowling: to think that only a few yearsss ago, cccyberssstalking, death threatsss and appearing drunk on live televisssion were consssidered gouache Rowling: but today, there'sss no bottom! Rowling: and itsss all thankss to your tirelesssss effortsss! Rowling: well done, graham!

Linehan: don't worry, i have a new plan against the trans Rowling: yesss? Linehan: i'm going to rally father ted fans Linehan: see, if you liked a sit com back in the 90s, then you're obligated to join my hate movement Linehan: there's no better way to connect with today's youth

Linehan: Father Ted fans will flock to my aid Linehan: there's no one more likely to be on board with hating queers than someone who liked a comedy that made fun of catholicism

Linehan: after all, think of the success that you had turning all your harry potter fans into loyal terfs Rowling: uhhhh Linehan: i mean, they did all fall in line right? Rowling: Rowling: Rowling:

Rowling: look, i don't need harry potter fansss Rowling: i have new fanss Rowling: fanss of me Rowling: the adoration of the world'sss children meansss nothing to me compared to the adoration of 12 mumsssnet possstersss named rossemary

Rowling: i might have given up the love of the world'ss children but look what i gained Maya Forstater: i'm gonna get that cartoon alien one of these days, i promise dark lord!! just watch! Julie Bindel: [red tape across mouth] mmm Rowling: yeah i Rowling: i really gained a lot

Allison Bailey: [sweating, desperately clutching briefcase] i won't drop it... i won't drop it Tatsuya Ishida: i'm drawing communist lesbian joe biden with a huge dick Elon Musk: mama mia dissa post issa banned for not being racist! oh!! Rowling: yeah Rowling: really gained a lot

[feeltheoceanholdmeunder]

Tatsuya Ishida

[autolenaphilia]

Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida is so fascinating to me, like it's one person mental decline over a period of decades in a webcomic form. Like the political evolution over the years is insane. Ishida started out as a fairly normal liberal dude, who reacted to Bush-era christian conservatism with sex-positive edgelording. He depicted Obama as over-the-top cool in a way that felt only half-ironic. Ironically in light of his later politics, he also had some caricatures of man- and sex-hating feminists. It wasn't really a heavily political strip either, there were character-based stories.

And then in the 2010s Ishida had a weird conversion to radical feminism. This took over the comic, and it became extremely political in a strident and unsubtle way.

It started out with a heavy focus on SWERF and anti-porn stuff, and there are some porn addiction arcs that it's easy to read autobiographically. Like you get the impression Ishida thinks he has a porn addiction and feels really bad about it, and radical feminism felt like an easier outlet for his feelings about it than the religion he had mocked so much before. He had drawn man-hating sex negative caricatures of feminists before, and that's ironically the exact kind of feminist he decided to become.

And how it depicts male consumption of porn is telling. Like porn is bad, but men are compelled to consume it and can never stop, because men are all irredeemably horny misogynists. It feels like a expression of self-hatred. Sinfest became a vehicle for unsubtle caustic moralistic invective, but it always seem to spill back on Ishida himself.

Ishida is heavy on the performative man-hating that male radfems usually aren't. And his main mouthpiece character during this phase is a lesbian woman.

Ishida's depiction of porn and sex work also consistently feels off, like the victims of the sex trade are drawn too sexy to really work as anti-porn. The sex workers in the comic are also literally sex robots, but clearly meant to stand in for real life human sex workers. It's very condescending.

It took a few years before Ishida fully revealed his transmisogyny. And since then it has increasingly dominated the comic. Extremely transmisogynist caricatures of transfems everywhere. Like every online transmisogynist, it has become an obsession for Ishida. And it's weird, like he has this obsession with drawing girlbulge on his transmisogynist caricatures that feels downright fetishistic.

Like I'm not usually like "transmisogynists are rotten eggs", but honestly Ishida feels like that might be true. The lesbian author stand-in, the self-hatred that extends to men as a gender, the obsessive transmisogyny. Reading Sinfest there feels like there is something deeply wrong with Ishida. He is not just a bigot, but feels deeply disturbed. And a case of extreme internalized transmisogyny and repression is as good an explanation as any.

Ishida has however gotten worse, and zoomed down the terf-to-fascist pipeline. The comic has evolved from terfy to full-on MAGA fascist. His transmisogyny has guided Ishida to darker and darker territory. There is an comic where his lesbian mouthpiece character abandons the left precisely because the left accepts trans people. He is now an anti-vaxxer and covid denialist of course, and his literal in-comic reason for distrusting vaccines is that medical scientists also favor trans healthcare.

Most recently Ishida has done an anti-immigration arc, where immigrants are depicted as evil alien invaders from pop culture. And that illustrates how self-defeating and ironic his views are. He is literally condemning immigration as an American man named Tatsuya Ishida.

Lesbian radfems beset by porn culture and the tranny menace no longer play a large part in modern Sinfest. His heroes are now redneck magahats, depicted as unfairly prosecuted by far-left cancel culture. And he seems entirely okay with their social conservatism, a right-wing redneck family has a housewife, and its depicted as okay.

By now he has done a full 180 over the last 20 years. The right-wing conservatives who he mocked in the 00s, are now his heroes.

The recurring characters and the storylines based around them are barely there, it's all political commentary at this point. When the old characters appear it's usually as props in his heavy-handed commentary.

Sinfest was never a great comic even at its 00s peak, but it was a normal comic. Now it's just a sad record of one person's mental and political decline.

[velvetvexations]

Honestly? Tatsuya Ishida is an amazing artist with a really, really good sense of design, color coordination, and visual language. Like, he's so good that I, someone who is really really not up to the task of assessing the technical qualities of art and don't usually think of art that way, feel compelled to comment on how fucking good he is at drawing lines and then coloring those lines.

Unfortunately, he is, and I cannot stress enough that this isn't hyperbole meant to insult him but rather a value neutral judgement of the facts, completely checked out of reality. Tatsuya Ishida uses his immense artistic talent to make bigoted gibberish that stuns one not so much in how offensive it is but how truly bizarre it is. He's a true blue radfem from since even before transphobia was their main thing and since then has descended to QAnon levels while at the same time retaining the Michfest vibe throughout beyond merely his thoughts on trans people.

Perhaps his greatest work of art is performance, embodying a singularly unique expression of maladapted outcast.

But like, damn it, look at this design!

You can't design characters that are this much my vibe and then use them as a mouthpiece for transphobia, that's ILLEGAL.

[fipindustries]

Continuing the documentation of the mental deterioration of tatsuya ishida (warning: antisemitism)

He has gone full circle to "actually christianity was a jewish plot, we need to retvrn to pagan greek myths", which is a level of nazism that i think even most nazis think its fucking weird so yeah

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

So Sinfest is about a decadent urban hellscape as seen through the eyes of a mentally unstable loner with:

A savior complex toward women and girls, which in practice only makes actual women and girls uncomfortable

Simultaneous obsession and disgust toward sex trafficking, including of children, and toward pornography

Fantasies about cleansing society through heroic vigilantism against the purveyors of vice who control everything and are represented as pimps in stereotypical 1970s-style outfits with feathered hats and all

A racist and queerphobic streak a mile wide

Haven't we seen this before?

(Tagging @feotakahari, @dagny-hashtaggart, and @quasi-normalcy here; may reblog to tag others)

[calpalsworld]

Idk if anyone cares about sinfest but I just want to remind everyone that he is a huge antisemite obviously. If you see his recent comics supporting Palestine, don't say they're "based." Remember that he only supports Palestinians because he is a neo nazi.

[organsblackcoat]

SIMPFEST-1

ello, so this should've been my first post here but I'm impatient

I found out about sinfest back around June when my friend was sending some of Tatsuya's current political comics on discord, I began actually reading Sinfest during October not thinking I would be that interested. I was severely wrong because immediately I was hooked shacked invested in the comic, from the old strips, to Tatsuya himself to anything that could be Sinfest related

Now, I couldn't just let Tatsuya slide, with his strange political views leeching onto his once loved webcomic? how could I, a single corpse simply allow him to continue posting shit comic after comic with no stop? so for last last few months I've been attempting at learning the old sinfest style, particularly during 2006-2008 and now I have this- enjoy!

[cutepastelstarsalior]

Spend 4 hours going through a twitter thread about Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida and my god. It’s a LOT. And what’s worse is some of the ideas and concepts are really cool????? Blue and fushia, lily and tang with D-man??? Those are cool. Along with the art??

Like LOOK at pretty this art is???????? What the hell man.

God if only Tatsuya just didn’t turn into….all of that *gesture towards him*

[darksidelawyer]

[svartikotturinn]

Tatzi published this comic relying on a trans metaphor to promote TERFery… on October 7th.

[makiruz]

I've talked about Sinfest turning into a conservative, transphobic mess; but apparently Tatsuya Ishida has gone so crazy that he somehow looped back to be right? His current Gaza arc is on point, and I can't believe it:

[ashe-the-acorn]

Sinfest forums is having one of its most active periods yet with a 20 post thread. First one since the last one a month ago and it’s just people complaining about how they don’t get the jokes anymore because the comic has become too full of transphobic and right wing content to make any sense and abandoned almost all the original cast. Sinfest continues to do a great job burning every possible source of revenue left to it.

[the-gershomite]

G.I. Joe #1 December 1995

“The Hour of the Iron Klaw” (11-15 of 15)

written by Mike W. Barr

pencil art by Tatsuya Ishida

inked by Scott Reed (p.1-8) & Tatsuya Ishida (p.9-16)

[svartikotturinn]

Aw man classic Sinfest, when it was still kinda fun to read

Anyway, there’s a trope for that

i love when a villain is like "ahhh what a ROTTEN day" but they mean that it's good and they're just saying it like that because they arbitrarily like when things are bad

[fipindustries]

im glad to see tatsuya ishida continues getting more and more deranged