Sinfest

By Tatsuya Ishida

The very first collection of Sinfest strips. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972466304
• ISBN13: 9780972466301
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Museworks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Way. Too. Funny!

I stumbled onto Sinfest at the Keenspot site while browsing the offerings there, and immediately had to go back and read from the first strip. Sinfest is a guilty pleasure; you know it's naughty, but you can't help it. I like that Mr. Ishida gives God equal billing, and the characters interact with God (and the Devil) in a way that I think a lot of people do--asking frank questions, trying to understand the way things go in life.The art style is crisp and the subject matter is wickedly sharp--not to mention very, very funny.

The best unsyndicated comic strip

Sinfest is quite frankly, THE best unsyndicated comic strip out there. As another reviewer said, it's risque nature-while making it frank and funnier-works against it when it comes to getting syndication. But the quality of the comic strip is superb, surpassing a good deal of the syndicated strips.Ishida's huge back-archive of comics is also delightful as it allows newcomers access to so many good comics. So buy this book and support this strip's continuation.

The Greatest Web Comic Comes to Copy

Tatsuya is without a doubt one of the finest strippers I've ever had the pleasure to read. The sweet playfulness of Waterson, the edginess of McGruder, the profundity of Socrates or a well-scripted fortune cookie.The interplay between the Divine and mortals, the self-empowered Ho-ness of Nique, the pathetic facade of slickness put on by Slick, the honesty of Dog and the mask of cynicism of Cat, and so much more...This comic has more to offer than almost any comic I've ever read, Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County nonwithstanding.It is funny and poignent, edgy and sincere, and calls out to us all with the voice of an intelligent and philosophical author, unafraid to use harshness of language or attitude to make his points and ask his questions--which are, ultimately, the same questions we gentle apes have been asking since we came down from the trees.Do yourself a favor, buy this book. Buy it for yourself, buy it for your friends and children, and buy it that Tatsuya may continue to bring his insight to us all.. . .I feel like I should say amen or something.

The Resistance

Tatsuya Ishida, as others have remarked, is god. Maybe not The God, but A god. At least when it comes to comic artistry. His drawings are mature, clear and unlike many other online cartoonists nowadays he doesn't reuse the same cell over and over again.His characters (while unbelievable as most are) involve you, and frankly you want Monique to do the dirty with Slick, purely for the comedy value. Tatsuya's forays into other areas (such as calligraphy) rock most aggregiously and he should do more of them. Now.I've been reading and loving Tatsuya's work since a month after he went online and can't believe he still hasn't been picked up for publication in a newspaper or magazine. As a previous reviewer noted, he doesn't cater to the PG or U market, but what he writes is funny, witty and has been more than enough to leave me laughing for minutes after I've finished the day's strip.Buy this book. And ask him to publish the next couple of years, right now.