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{{Short description|American webcomic}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox Webcomic|
| title = Sinfest
| image = [[File:Sinfest_logo.gif]]    
| caption =
| author = Tatsuya Ishida
| url = {{URL|www.sinfest.xyz}}
| status = Daily
| began = {{Start date|1991|10|16}} (''[[Daily Bruin]]'' newspaper) <br/> {{Start date|2000|01|17}} (web publication)
| ended = 
| genre = Comedy, satire
| ratings = 
}}
'''''Sinfest''''' is a long-running daily American [[comic strip]] by Tatsuya Ishida. It originally appeared in the ''[[Daily Bruin]]'' student newspaper between 1991 and 1994<!--physical, not a webcomic-->. Ishida relaunched the comic strip in 2000 by self-publishing it online as a [[webcomic]]. ''Sinfest'' has also been collected into five printed books; [[Dark Horse Comics]] published two of them, in 2009 and 2011.

The comic has received mixed reactions over the years due to its treatment of topics such as race, feminism, politics, and sexism. Its themes and tone have shifted significantly over time, with the 1990s incarnation often regarded as particularly crass. During the 2000s, the comic adopted a black comedy style, frequently referencing pop culture. In 2008, it began incorporating more overt political and ideological themes, including elements of radical feminism from 2011 onward. In 2022, the comic's content led to the author's bans from platforms such as Patreon and Twitter for violating policies on hateful content.

==History==
===Launch and transition from print to online publication===
[[File:Sinfest comic from 2000-01-21.gif|thumb|A 2000 ''Sinfest'' panel including an anti-African American racist [[fried chicken stereotype]]. ''Sinfest'' has been described as "insulting and degrading" and as "including racial caricatures."<ref name="Garrity-2012" /><ref name="Kleefeld-2013" />]]
''Sinfest'' was initially published by the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]' ''Daily Bruin'' from October 16, 1991, to 1994.<ref>{{cite comic|url=https://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/log/1005log.htm|title=Sinfest|volume=1|issue=1|publisher=Dark Horse Books |date=2009}}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' described these strips as even "raunchier and harsher" than ''Sinfest'' comics from the early 2000s.<ref name="Publishers Weekly 6 July 2009" /> In 2009, Ishida said he wanted to create comics after reading a ''[[Peanuts]]'' paperback as a child, due to  "the simplicity and solitary nature of the medium."<ref name="Hudson-2009" /> Following this phase of ''Sinfest'', Ishida briefly worked as [[penciller]] for [[Dark Horse Comics]]' ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme#Comics|G.I. Joe Extreme]]'' (published 1995–6).<ref>{{cite web |title=Search :: Dark Horse Comics |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Search/Browse/%22Tatsuya+Ishida%22/PpwNwkt8 |website=www.darkhorse.com |access-date=7 February 2025}}</ref><ref name="Hudson-2009" />{{efn|Ishida said that he "botched" this job, saying that "several [of his] pages were so poorly drawn they had to get another guy to redo them entirely".<ref name="Hudson-2009" />}}

In 2000, Ishida taught himself [[HTML]], put together a [[GeoCities]] web page, and started uploading ''Sinfest'' strips seven days per week.<ref name="Hudson-2009"/> By April 2000, ''Sinfest'' was being hosted on the webcomics site [[Keenspot]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ishida |first=Tatsuya |date=2000-10-21 |title=Notes from the Resistance |url=http://sinfest.net/resistance.htm |access-date=2025-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001021162340/http://sinfest.net/resistance.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2000 }}</ref> Ishida has said that he maintained a seven-day-a-week schedule during the first seven years through "coffee and revenge".<ref name="Hudson-2009">{{cite web |last=Hudson |first=Laura |date=June 9, 2009 |title=The Wages of ''Sinfest'' |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/11606-the-wages-of-sinfest.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109133859/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/11606-the-wages-of-sinfest.html |archive-date=January 9, 2016 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |quote=The first seven years it was coffee and revenge. That's what kept me going. My attitude was, 'I'll show them. I'll show them all!' ... a much more political turn during the 2008 presidential election}}</ref> In 2013, author Sean Kleefeld described some of the earliest strips as using "racial stereotypes" that are "racially insensitive at best" and "insulting and degrading."<ref name="Kleefeld-2013">{{Cite web |last=Kleefeld |first=Sean |date=April 8, 2013 |title=Growth As An Artist |url=http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2013/04/growth-as-artist.html |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Kleefeld on Comics}}</ref>  Ishida, who lives a private life and has little interaction with his readership,<ref name="Carlson-2011">{{cite web |last=Carlson |first=Johanna Draper |date=January 24, 2011 |title=Tatsuya Ishida Speaks on Sinfest, Jesus, and Fans |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/45885-tatsuya-ishida-speaks-on-sinfest-jesus-and-fans.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204203839/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/45885-tatsuya-ishida-speaks-on-sinfest-jesus-and-fans.html |archivedate=February 4, 2017 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |quote=it was canceled due to poor sales performance ... gotten an earful over the political content ... Less socializing means I can concentrate more on the strip.}}</ref> has said that ''Sinfest'' has included political views that have led to reader complaints since its early comics.<ref name="Carlson-2011" /> Writing for ''[[The Comics Journal]]'', comics-writer [[Shaenon K. Garrity|Shaenon Garrity]] has described how the comic has included "a lot of offensive material over the years, including racial caricatures, sex and drug humor, and lots of sexism."<ref name="Garrity-2012"/> Writing for ''[[The Comics Beat]]'', journalist Laura Sneddon stated that, during this period, "the comic was indeed a Sin-fest, stuffed with black comedy and poking outrage for humour".<ref name="Sneddon 2013">{{cite web |last1=Sneddon |first1=Laura |title=24 Hours of Webcomics: Sinfest |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/24-hours-of-webcomics-sinfest/ |website=[[Comics Beat|The Beat]] |access-date=7 February 2025 |date=24 May 2013}}</ref> ''[[Paste (magazine)|Paste]]'' magazine described it as a four-[[panel (comics)|panel]] comic strip relying on [[pop culture]] references and [[dark humor]].<ref name="Rosberg-2016">{{cite web |last=Rosberg |first=Caitlin |date=November 11, 2016 |title=Required Reading: 40 of the Best Webcomics |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/required-reading-40-of-the-best-webcomics.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202032914/https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/required-reading-40-of-the-best-webcomics.html |archivedate=February 2, 2017 |work=[[Paste Magazine]] |quote=Originally a four-panel comedy strip with a dark, biting sense of humor aimed at pop culture, Sinfest has recently become a more specific and pointed criticism of the most toxic parts of American exceptionalism. […] [Ishida's] sharp use of The Matrix as a visual metaphor for the ways in which people are blinded has proven particularly poignant during this current presidential election cycle. (Slide 35 of 40 in ref-link)}}</ref> ''Sinfest'' won two [[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] in 2001<ref name="2001WCCA" /> and two more in 2003.<ref name="2003WCCA" />

The comic's art-style resembles [[Chibi (style)|chibi]].<ref name="Garrity-2012" /><ref name="Library Journal 2009" /> According to Garrity, it can get away with offensive material for being "darn cute", and she and Kleefeld both commended the art-work.<ref name="Garrity-2012" /><ref name="Kleefeld-2013" /> Early characters included Slick, a main-character and a hedonistic womanizer, resembling [[Bill Watterson]]'s [[Calvin and Hobbes#Calvin|Calvin]], described by Ishida as a "Pimp Ninja, Calvin rip-off."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ishida |first=Tatsuya |title=cast |url=http://sinfest.net/cast.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001207085700/http://sinfest.net/cast.htm |archive-date=2000-12-07 |access-date=2025-07-25 |website=sinfest.net}}</ref> His side-kick was "[[it girl]]" Monique,<ref name="Library Journal 2009">{{cite magazine |last1=Cornog |first1=Martha |title=Graphic Novels |magazine=[[Library Journal]] |access-date= |date=15 September 2009|id={{ProQuest|196880639}}}}</ref><ref name="Publishers Weekly 6 July 2009">{{cite magazine |last1= |first1= |title=Comics |magazine=[[Publishers Weekly]] |access-date= |date=6 July 2009|id={{ProQuest|197091639}}}}</ref> described by Ishida as "age:16," a "SlutTrampHo" and "jail bait."<ref name=":0" /> Garrity describes her as a "sexy coffeehouse poet" and recounts her spending "one of her earliest strips in a bikini, showing her ass to the reader".<ref name="Garrity-2012" /> Other early characters included [[God]] and the [[Devil in Christianity|Devil]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strömberg |first1=Fredrik |author1-link=Fredrik Strömberg |title=The Comics Go to Hell: A Visual History of the Devil in Comics |date=2005 |publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]] |isbn=978-1-56097-616-5 |page=259 |url=https://archive.org/details/comicsgotohellvi0000stro/page/258/mode/2up?q=sinfest |language=en}}</ref>

Ishida [[Self-publishing|self-published]] three print volumes of ''Sinfest'' between 2002 and 2005. Two volumes of early ''Sinfest'' have been [[Webcomics in print|published in print]] by [[Dark Horse Comics]]. The first of these was released in mid-2009 and reprints the first year of the webcomic. Dark Horse planned another book release in late 2009, but that book was cancelled due to the poor sales of the first book.<ref name="Carlson-2011" /> The second volume, a 2011 collection titled ''Viva la Resistance'', covers the webcomic's run from 2003 to 2004.<ref name="Carlson-2011" /> ''Sinfest'' has also appeared in the Norwegian comic magazine ''[[Nemi (comic strip)|Nemi]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/litteratur/Debuterer-i-Tommy-og-Tigeren-2285615.html |work=[[Bergens Tidende]] |title=Debuterer i Tommy og Tigeren |last=Garvik |first=Bodil |date=January 14, 2005 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611141712/http://www.bt.no/bergenpuls/litteratur/Debuterer-i-Tommy-og-Tigeren-2285615.html |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |quote=Nå fremhever hun amerikanske Tony Millionaires Maakies og Sinfest av japanske Tatsuya Ishida, som går i Nemi [She now highlights the American Tony Millionaire's Maakies and Sinfest by Japanese Tatsuya Ishida, which appears in Nemi].}}</ref>

During the [[2008 United States presidential election]], ''Sinfest'' incorporated even more political themes.<ref name="Hudson-2009" /> Critic [[R. C. Harvey]] wrote in ''The Comics Journal'' in 2009 that it was the best webcomic around, and that "It borders on the blasphemous, but uproariously so. Surely we deserve to be offended in so hilarious a fashion."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Harvey |first1=R. C. |authorlink=R. C. Harvey|title=Why 2008 was a very good year |date=2009 |magazine=[[The Comics Journal]] |isbn=978-1-56097-986-9 |page=117 |url=https://archive.org/details/comicsjournalno20000unse/page/116/mode/2up?q=sinfest+ishida}}</ref> Ishida has said that he switches between characters and situations in his webcomic "pretty much on a whim", saying that "the longer storylines help to pull it all together."<ref name="Carlson-2011" /> In 2011, Ishida started to produce weekly strips in color on Sundays, giving readers, in his words, "something extra fun and engaging".<ref name="Carlson-2011" />

===Later changes in direction and themes===
In October 2011, the comic abruptly shifted in tone, focusing heavily on [[radical feminist]] themes.<ref name="Ishida-2018">{{cite web |last=Ishida |first=Tatsuya |date=July 1, 2018 |title=Notes from the Resistance: Take The Long Way Home |url=https://sinfest.net/news.php |website=Sinfest |quote=I'm launching a new forum for people who like the message of my comic. The new forum will be anti-pornography, anti-prostitution. It will favor the radical feminist perspective over a liberal or conservative one. So if you'd like to participate in a forum environment more in harmony with the comic, I invite you to join.}}</ref><ref name="Polo-2013">{{cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=August 14, 2013 |title=40 Webcomics You Need to Read |url=https://www.themarysue.com/40-webcomics-you-need-to-read/2/ |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707021326/https://www.themarysue.com/40-webcomics-you-need-to-read/2/ |archivedate=July 7, 2017 |work=[[The Mary Sue]] |quote=Over the past year or so, however, the strip has gone through a revolution of sorts, tackling numerous feminist concepts like slut-shaming, misogyny, problematic porn, and street harassment, sometimes requiring great personal adjustments from its main characters.}}</ref><ref name="Kleefeld-2020">{{Cite book |last=Kleefeld |first=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggTdDwAAQBAJ&dq=Webcomics+%22Sean+Kleefeld%22+%22ishida+switched+his+focus%22&pg=PA82 |title=Webcomics |publisher=Bloomsbury Comics Studies |isbn=1350028177 |publication-date=June 25, 2020 |pages=82–3 |quote=A more dramatic shift occurred in Sinfest when creator Tatsuya Ishida switched his focus after a decade from, as one reviewer described, “jiggly pimps-n-hoes humor” (Garrity, 2012) to a more overtly radical feminist message. The change in direction was fairly abrupt and unannounced, surprising many readers.}}</ref> Ishida introduced new characters to explore these new themes, and to confront the humor in older strips.<ref name="Garrity-2012" /> Over its first decade as a webcomic it evolved into a more serious work, with a large cast of regular characters commenting on such themes as [[organized religion]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Orndorff |first=Patrick |date=August 10, 2009 |title=10 Great Webcomics You Should Not Share With Your Kids |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/08/10-great-webcomics-you-should-not-share-with-your-kids-geekdad-wayback-machine/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |quote=This comic takes a very irreverent view of organized religion and should not be viewed by the overly devout or by the closed-minded. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222023014/https://www.wired.com/2009/08/10-great-webcomics-you-should-not-share-with-your-kids-geekdad-wayback-machine/ |archivedate=December 22, 2016}}</ref> [[American exceptionalism]],<ref name="Rosberg-2016" /> and [[economic insecurity]].<ref name="Hudson-2009" /> It abruptly shifted focus to [[radical feminism]] in 2011,<ref name="Kleefeld-2020" /><ref name="Ishida-2018" /> tackling issues such as [[slut-shaming]], [[misogyny]], and [[street harassment]].<ref name="Polo-2013" /> In this period, Monique cut her hair and began questioning [[gender role]]s and [[Patriarchy#Feminist theory|patriarchy as a system of oppression]], the latter depicted as a ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]''-like oppressive [[simulated reality]].<ref name="Sneddon 2013" /> Sneddon compared the comic's themes in this period to ''[[I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space]]'', another feminist webcomic, noting that ''Sinfest'' had a larger audience—inherited from before the change in direction; however, some of these old fans were outraged by the changes to Monique.<ref name="Sneddon 2013" />

Garrity said in 2012 that "raunchy strips about strippers are followed by cute cat-and-dog gags are followed by religious humor are followed by autobio strips are followed by shit-stirring political cartoons are followed by spoken-word poetry are followed by lessons in drawing Japanese kanji, one of ''Sinfest''’s signature running features", and that "''Sinfest'' is always, first and foremost, about what Ishida wants to cartoon at any given moment."<ref name="Garrity-2012">{{cite magazine |last1=Garrity |first1=Shaenon |authorlink=Shaenon K. Garrity |date=April 23, 2012 |title=The Sisterhood of the Pimp Ninja Sluts |magazine=[[The Comics Journal]] |url=https://www.tcj.com/the-sisterhood-of-the-pimp-ninja-sluts/ |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref> ''[[PC Magazine]]'' listed ''Sinfest'' among the best webcomics of 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last=Griffith |first=Eric |date=February 14, 2015 |title=The Best Webcomics 2015 |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399081,00.asp |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009173445/https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399081,00.asp |archivedate=October 9, 2017 |work=[[PC Magazine]] |quote=Tatsuya Ishida's perfect line work is a beauty to behold […] as is his bravery to cover the topics of religion, patriarchy, sex, and drugs, all in a humorous fashion.}}</ref> Ishida said in 2017, "Over the years [Sinfest] has gone through many changes, to the delight of some and dismay of others. I hope to continue polarizing audiences for many years to come."<ref name="Kleefeld-2020" /> Kleefeld wrote in 2020 that "The message of social justice through radical feminism is still the strip's raison d'etre, but it's a message of safety and inclusion rather than one of outreach and education."<ref name="Kleefeld-2020" />

In April 2022, Journalist [[Ryan Broderick]] noted the addition of "long-running internet conspiracies, like the [[New World Order conspiracy theory|Illuminati]] and the [[Bilderberg group#Conspiracy theories|Bilderberg group]]" (by the early-2010s), the [[MAGA movement]] (2016+), [[anti-trans]] storylines (2019+), and [[QAnon]] (2021+), and opined that "as of now, the comic is a Christian fascist slurry of random internet nonsense."<ref name="Broderick - 2022">{{cite web |last1=Broderick |first1=Ryan |date=April 29, 2022|authorlink=Ryan Broderick|title=The Long, Strange Journey Of Sinfest |url=https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-bad-man-pipeline-is-confusing |website=Garbage Day |access-date=1 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>  In September 2022, Ishida wrote that he was locked out of [[Twitter]] for "hateful conduct", in reference to his September 3 strip.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sinfest.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=686 |first=Ishida |last=Tatsuya |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Twitter Lockout |website=Sinfest forums |quote=Just got locked out of Twitter for this comic [2022-09-03]. They say it's 'hateful conduct.' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821134322/https://sinfest.xyz/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=686 |archive-date=August 21, 2023}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} In December 2022, Ishida wrote that [[Patreon]], where he had had an account for four years,<ref>{{cite web |last=Tatsuya |first=Ishida |date=January 8, 2018 |title=This Is My Winter Song To You |url=http://sinfest.net/news.php |website=Sinfest blog |quote=Hi. I made a patreon. Happy New Year!}}</ref> had banned him for promoting "sentiments of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation".<ref>{{cite web |last=Tatsuya |first=Ishida |date=December 8, 2022 |title=Singing for my Supper |url=http://sinfest.net/news.php |website=Sinfest blog |quote=I got kicked off of Patreon so please support me at one of these platforms […]. Thank you!}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=TatsuyaIshida9|number=1600533238325256192 |last=Ishida |first=Tatsuya |date=December 7, 2022 |title=Patreon removed my account for promoting 'sentiments of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.'|access-date=December 14, 2022}}</ref>

In 2024, Kleefeld wrote that when catching up on ''Sinfest'' strips, he "wasn't understanding them", and that the comic had gone into a "downward spiral".<ref name="Kleefeld-2024">{{Cite web |last=Kleefeld |first=Sean |date=April 8, 2024 |title=On Tatsuya Ishida |url=http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/04/on-tatsuya-ishida.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240504074004/http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/04/on-tatsuya-ishida.html |archive-date=May 4, 2024 |access-date=May 4, 2024 |website=Kleefeld on Comics}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Award
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Category
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Result
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Reference
|-
|2001
|[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]]
|Best Female Character
|style="background:#dfd;" | Won
|<ref name="2001WCCA">{{cite web |title=The 2001 Cartoonist's Choice Awards |url=http://www.ccawards.com/2001.htm |work=[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] |access-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122074855/http://www.ccawards.com/2001.htm |archive-date=22 January 2015 |language=en |url-status=dead |quote=BEST FEMALE CHARACTER: Monique (of "Sinfest") - by Tatsuya Ishida (WINNER!) […] BEST OTHER CHARACTER: God (of "Sinfest") - by Tatsuya Ishida (WINNER!)}}</ref>
|-
|2001
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Best Other Character
|style="background:#dfd;" | Won
|<ref name="2001WCCA"/>
|-
|2003
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Comic
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2003WCCA">{{cite web |title=The 2003 Cartoonist's Choice Awards |url=http://www.ccawards.com/2003.htm |work=[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] |access-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019124306/http://www.ccawards.com/2003.htm |archive-date=19 October 2014 |language=en |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|2003
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Black and White Art
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2003WCCA"/>
|-
|2003
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Line Art
|style="background:#dfd;" | Won
|<ref name="2003WCCA"/>
|-
|2003
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Short Form Comic
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2003WCCA"/>
|-
|2003
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Gag Comic
|style="background:#dfd;" | Won
|<ref name="2003WCCA"/>
|-
|2004
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Black and White Art
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2004WCCA">{{cite web |title=2004 Results |url=http://www.ccawards.com/2004.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027235626/http://www.ccawards.com/2004.htm |archive-date=October 27, 2014 |access-date=15 February 2025 |work=[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] |language=en |quote=Outstanding Black and White Art […] Outstanding Character (Visual) […] Outstanding Short Form Comic.}}</ref>
|-
|2004
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Character
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2004WCCA"/>
|-
|2004
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Short Form Comic
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref name="2004WCCA"/>
|-
|2005
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Short Form Comic
|style="background:#fdd;"| Honorable Mention
|<ref>{{cite web |title=The 2005 Cartoonist's Choice Awards |url=http://www.ccawards.com/2005.htm |website=[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] |access-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019124218/http://www.ccawards.com/2005.htm |archive-date=19 October 2014 |language=en |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|2008
|Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards
|Outstanding Short Form Comic
|style="background:#fdd;"| Nominated
|<ref>{{cite web |title=The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards - 2008 List of Winners & Finalists |url=http://ccawards.com/2008finalists.html |website=[[Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards]] |access-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110095125/http://ccawards.com/2008finalists.html |archive-date=10 November 2014 |language=en |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.sinfest.net/ ''Sinfest'' website]
*[https://archive.org/details/ucladailybruin137losa/page/n469/mode/2up 1991 issues] of ''[[Daily Bruin]]'', including the first ''Sinfest'' strip from October
*[https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC4076615/page/n1/mode/2up?q=sinfest The architecture of visual narrative comprehension], 2014 ''[[Frontiers in Psychology]]'' article by [[Neil Cohn]], using ''Sinfest'' as an example of narration in comics

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