Ad Hominem

Argumentation fallacies are widely known -- and wildly misused -- in the internet, and the "ad hominem" is a huge favorite. It comes from Latin and means "to the man". It means "attacking the arguer instead of the argument", and it means more than just not insulting your opponent: it's about not taking a tangent and talking about what a horrible person an author is when the subject under the spotlights is his work. Assholes produce good art, and saints also create shit. The key point is that both parts are independent.

The thing is this: You are not separate from your work. And, more than anywhere, this holds most true with webcomics. Webcomic artists interact with their readers directly. They don't have anyone monitoring their actions and this often leads to a lot of them making asses of themselves. Why does this matter? Because when you do interact with your fans that interaction becomes important. This isn't about personal attacks, it's about people who make webcomics understanding the importance of properly maintaining their public persona.

We have on this site racist, homophobes, pedophiles, lunatics and just plain assholes. So, if you are planning to make a webcomic, read this and learn how not to behave.

All that said... let the turd-flinging begin!

Ryan Sohmer

 * Known Work(s): Least I Could Do; Looking For Group; The Gutters

Ryan Sohmer is in this section for nothing more than sexism. But he takes to the mission of denigrating women with such devotion that it's almost admirable. Over the course of a decade of insulting every woman on the planet by his very existence, he has built himself up a small empire. This allowed him to do such great things as: Sponsor other bad webcomics, make more bad webcomics, getting in trouble with REAL comic companies for sending them Christmas cards and even financially support the making of Tim Buckley's awful "CAD: Animated" series. Proving once and for all that the saying "Birds of a feather flock together" holds true for scavengers as well. He also constantly criticizes other webcomic artists as a whole for being "unprofessional", citing the fact that his own comic has never missed a single update. Although, considering he has never drawn his own comic, this leads to the conclusion that his workday for the past ten years has consisted of making one bad joke a day. In this section for: His comic being an insult to women and maybe all of mankind, and for whoring out the entire medium of webcomics to make a profit.

Tim Buckley

 * Known Work(s): Ctrl+Alt+Del

With this #1 star of webcomic assholes it's is simpler to just list his discretions rather than actually go into detail about each one, a task that might last until the end of time. So, instead, here is the incomplete list of things Tim Buckley is guilty of: In this section for: Shoplifting, romantically pressuring a minor, cheating on his girlfriend, showing his dick to people online, banning republicans from his forum, racist jokes, no talent, feuding with other webcomic artists, defacing his own wikipidia article and pretending someone else did it, defacing other webcomics wikipidia articles and pretending someone else did it, setting up a fraudulent charity, keeping the donation money made by his fraudulent charity, threatening high school kids with lawsuits for using his characters in a school project, stealing someones character design he found on Google, stealing another webcomics art style, stealing jokes from TV shows, stealing jokes from other webcomics and much MUCH more (and that even without mentioning the comic itself).

Bleedman

 * Known Work(s): Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi; Grim Tales From Down Below; Sugar Bits

With his insatiable love for plagiarism, Vinson "Bleedman" Ngo has manged to create some of the most insulting misuses of intellectual property known to man. Thickly laden with pedophilic undertones, overtone and any other tone you can imagine. Couple that with a compete an total inability to understand what is considered appropriate, something that has led him to include both Hitler and 9/11 in the comic and refuse to apologize, and you have one of the most hated webcomic artist at work today. In this section for: Plagiarism, Copyright infringement and pedophilia.

Tom Preston

 * Known Work(s): So... You're a Cartoonist?; Alex Ze Pirate; Formera; Danny And Spot; Patty

Mr. Andrew Dobson's, a.k.a. "Tom Preston", or "CattyN", story begin with a fetishist female artist who showed up around the net during the early 2000's. This wet dream come true for many fetishists resulted in a fat guy being afraid his fetish would cost him jobs. After a really, really odd incident where someone saved his inflation illustration forced him to go back into fetish drawings, he decided it was time to show himself to the world as a whiny, arrogant victim of internet trolls looking forward to making him their personal free fetish artist. Now he gives conferences all over the net how, despite his wide education in arts, he's unable to make as much money as he would have hoped to, and has resolved to blaming trolls and anime for his lack of skill and money. In this section for: Being an untalented pervert who constantly criticizes other, yet rejects all critique that is directed at him.

Jennifer Diane Reitz

 * Known Work(s): Pastel Defender Heliotrope; Unicorn Jelly; To Save Her and about 50 other comics no one wants to read.

The once proud owner of "HappyPuppy" who has long ago gone off the deep end. Since selling his (now her) website for reportedly 1.2 million dollars, Jennifer has managed to blow all that money on an assorted collection of Anime paraphernalia. Later she continued on to having a sex change operation and setting up a website with the intent of helping gender confused individuals. In reality, the website will attempt to convince everyone that they are a man trapped in a women's body (or vice versa), and should immediately have the same operation JDR once had and now regrets. His insane behavior was so bad that at one point P.O.E had an entire forum for the sake of keeping up with his craziness, with the icing on the cake being a hilarious death threat against webcomic critic John Solomon. In this section for: Multiple and diverse levels of insanity.

Dave Cheung

 * Known Work(s): Chugworth! (remade twice); Chugworth Academy; Boss Noodle; U.S. Angel Corps

After his success in posting some of the most revolting pornography ever seen standard smut on Gurochan, making three webcomics everyone mocked and he had since deleted or end, and almost getting sued by Ubisoft for moralfagging them on the grounds of over-sexualization with (what else?) cartoon porno, Dave Cheung finally decided to drop all false pretenses of being a serious artist, and began work on his final masterpiece: U.S. Angel Corps. A disgusting, misogynistic porn comic that includes such themes like: rape, incontinence, torture, murder and necrophilia, all presented in a sexual tone. After finding out that he was reviewed on this site, he complained to the Wikidot administration to have the articles removed... We could rewrite them without the personal attacks, but Cheung being a a menace to society is pretty much the main point of them all The reviews are back. In this section for: Being a the favorite artist of a community of potential rapists.

Jay Naylor

 * Known Work(s): Better Days; Original Life; New World (deleted); Tons of furry porn.

Our friend Jay loves to openly express his somewhat twisted political views anytime he feels like it via his webcomics. Also, he loves to exaggerate, deny, or lie about whatever he talks about. This alone is what makes people feel uncomfortable when around him. Most of the time, this ends up in a fight between Jay and whichever unlucky bastard dared to cross paths with him. Also, he takes criticism in the most politically correct way he knows: Deletes any trace of it, block the critic (or person who doesn't agree with him), and then libels the person who criticized him. In this section for: Stealing other people's characters, being an abusive boyfriend, being a massive douchebag.