Do You Want To Read The Rant To End All Rants? (20 pages)

[Khephra]

(NOTE: I'm just posting this because it's a bit of a Net classic, NOT because I agree with ANY of this.

Sims is one of the original independent comicbook heroes. He started doing his own stuff back when others thought it was impossible. Setting a goal for 300 issues, he's now about two issues from reaching that goal.

For many years he was a beloved figure in the industry, and then, slowly over time, something started to go wrong.

"Cerebus" is known to many people outside the comics world. If you haven't read him, you still might have heard of Cerebus the Aardvark.)




AND NOW...............

THE RANT TO END ALL RANTS:

Tangents
By Dave Sim

Seven years after his controversial "Reads" disquisition on male vs. female gender roles, Dave Sim has, in Cerebus #265, returned to the fray with "Tangents," a 20-page essay that further explores his thoughts on the subject. (Briefly: males are superior creative "lights," females are inferior non-creative "voids" leeching off the males, and modern civilization is being crippled by the "feminist/homosexualist axis's" attempts to emasculate men and turn them into women.) Sim, who believes he is making some crucial points that should be read as widely as possible, has officially waived all copyright to the essay, encouraging any and all interested parties to disseminate it. The Comics Journal has scanned in a copy of "Tangents," which can be accessed below.
The Comics Journal's editors wish to emphasize that the posting of this essay in no way represents an endorsement of the views contained therein which, as a matter of fact, they find (to various degrees) as nutty and loathesome - or moreso - as some of the more extreme Jack Chick tracts. This perception was apparently shared by Sim's (female) typesetter, who quit in disgust midway through keying it in (a principled decision that Sim mentions, and mocks, in the finished version of the essay itself).


- The Comics Journal staff


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Note: Rather than post the entire thing in one long webpage, we've decided to break each of the five "tangents" into their own pages, each linkable from the others; the "Pre-Tangent preamble" is included with the first "tangent," while Sim's notice of public domain (from the inside back cover) is included with the fifth.

http://www.tcj.com/232/tangent0.html

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Here's a good history on the book:

Cerebus: An Aardvark on the Edge
(A Brief History of Dave Sim and His Independent Comic Book)

http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2003/rothenberg.htm