Pictures for Sad Children

Oh, I've been meaning to put this on my tablet to read at the families house over thanksgiving. Thanks for the reminder OP, and for the storytime
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This is pretty fucking dumb so far.

>>87869847
Why does a ghost need to use the door?

The author's meltdown and him destroying the copies was the best possible ending for the series.

>>87869912
story?

Oooooh, now this will be a good thread!

Way to go, OP

>>87869735
>>87869762
>Not being able to appreciate cool historical shit.

I pity this Ghost.

>>87869897

because hes a shitty ghost.
the only difference between him and someone else, is that hes already dead, so he lacks most of the major drawbacks of being alive (see >>87869847)

same reason hes in a fucking plane.

>>87869702
As someone from oklahoma, this hits home.

>>87869946

dude did a kickstarter.
got to a point where he had a couple hundred copies of the book still to send out, but not enough kickstarter (or personal) funds to afford to send them out to all the backers.

so he lit them all on fire, took pictures, posted them on line.

and thats as far as I know.

did the artist ever get better? He went pretty crazy

>>87870070
wow... that's straight up double niggardly

>>87870142
He needs your help to get better.
$20 per month of your help.
http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/

>>87870145
This came at the end of some serious psych-ward-tier stuff already and he backed it with a long-winded "explanation" about how it was meant to represent the ultimate meaninglessness of late capitalism or something
It was a whole thing and super entertaining if you weren't into it

>>87870003
Paris does kind of suck, to be fair

>>87870344
hey that describes my experience with grad school

except the bit about Derrida's birthday

>>87870188

My first time hearing about this, so is he more or less ransoming his comics until he acquires 720/month?

What happens to those 11 who are paying in despite not having enough folks to fund him?

>>87870188
What a fucking faggot.

Why doe HE get to live off the efforts of others without giving anything back?

>>87870443
He wants people to give him money without expecting anything in return. Those 11 people are just giving him money. They aren't buying anything or funding any project. They are giving him money so he can buy food and pay rent.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts/759318

> I want direct funding for my living necessities. I want to establish relationships with a group of people who can pay for my baseline needs like food and rent. I am looking for people who do not feel they need to see any “return” on their “investment.” I am looking for people who understand that money is a bad joke we use to hurt each other. I’m looking for people who like me were born with a lot of privileges but who have had the awareness and emotional stability to keep their bucket under the faucet when the money comes out.

> I am not looking for the support of anyone who wants a book, or wants to see me put stick figure comics on the internet. I do not need the support of anyone who thinks that I will deserve to eat and sleep only after I have fulfilled some standard they’ve chosen to hold me to. I am looking for people who believe that if you spend your life in a small room thinking, you deserve to live and breathe the same amount as someone who spends their life doing intense physical or mental labor, or who has money that "makes money."

>>87870624
this is far too real

>>87870603
>navel gazing is valuable
>which is why I need an artificial system where people pay me tribute
>this makes much more sense than people being paid because others agree what they do is valuable

Is it too much to hope those 11 people are trolls who will cut him off en masse.

>>87870164
>it's like riding a bike that you hate

...I need to update my resume.

>>87870047
I like this ghost I wish he worked at my company.

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>>87870603
i was really enjoying this comic until i hit this point in the thread now im having a mixed feeling of disgust and confusion

>>87871017
The author reached such a point of mental unbalance that he makes the average internet user looks normal

This reflected on his work on this comic however, and it's spectacular.

I say ignore how much of a shithead he is and enjoy the pictures

>>87871017
Feel better than he doesn't want people distributing his "old work".

>>87870705
>>87870671
I had this same shit happen to me, FUCKING WOMEN.

>>87870188
Didn't they also decide they were trans, without making any effort to transition?

>>87870230
>>87870637
>>87870671
>>87870705
This guy really loves T.S. Eliot

>>87870671
>artist
>self-centered thief
Epic foreshadowing.

>>87871198
Explain

I remember at one point there was a continuation of the main comic where Paul's time as a ghost is up and he gets sent to hell where he meets Gary's roommate Jeremy. Hell is a hotel room with really poor wifi. It's also in some latin american country.

For some reason, presumably because the artist didn't feel like finishing the storyline and didn't want it to be half-finished, the entire lot was deleted and I haven't been able to find them since. Please tell me I didn't just dream them.

>>87871247
Nope, this happens in the main comic.

>>87871233
The comics I referenced have really blatant quotations from Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which is a poem about getting old and nothing really mattering and not fitting in anywhere (among other things) so you can see why this guy loves it.

For example, Gary refusing the offer of a peach is literally a reference to "I do not dare to eat a peach", which we can tell to be a reference since the guy then alludes to the line "With a bald spot in the middle of my hair".

>>87871247
Yeah that happened starting at page 213 of Pictures for Sad Children.

>>87871233
Not him but "That is not it at all" and "do i dare to eat a peach" are both lines in TS Eliot poems. The second one is from The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock. The patient man smelling ether on a table is also from Prufrock I think. They are references without any substance, the guy might like Elliot but he isn't using the references as anything but references. Too much DMT I guess.

>>87871325
>>87871358
That's neat, thanks for clarifying

It's good to have these threads with people adding information to the comic.

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Sad Kiddy Pics is one of my top ten webcomics of all time. Shame about the author's brain problems.

>>87871189
She now goes by the name "Merry Graves" and prefers feminine pronouns.

>>87870198

The thing that gets friends of mine that know this story better is that, there are people helping him to set fire to those books.
You can see them in the video.

There people you can clearly see helping him with his fucking meltdown. Instead of persuading him to back down and be reasonable about things they are actively encouraging him to act like a crazy person.

These people are bad friends.

I wonder how much of his problems were because of them.

Thanks for postin' OP. You can really see the foreshadowing of the author's slowly developing breakdown in these comics.

hindsight's 20/20 eh

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So is there a place to get all the old comics without having to save every picture in this thread?

Also, am I really going to have to save literally everything I ever enjoy because the internet isn't half as good as preserving these things as much as I'd like

>>87871825
There used to be mirrors and torrents, but he used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to get them all taken down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sadchildrenbookclub/comments/53thju/my_life_is_not_an_arg_please_dont_post_about_me/

> People here and elsewhere on reddit have been distributing my work in private messages, posting links and creating torrents despite knowing that I do not want my work distributed. When I ask these people to stop, they either do not respond or flat out tell me no. The moderator of this subreddit told me they wouldn’t do anything about it. So I filed some “dmca”s and some of the links went down.

> Why would the direct requests of an artist about their work matter less than a “dmca”? Please don’t answer this question. Please don’t comment on this post. Please don’t try to contact me. Please don’t tell me you liked my comics or that you “hope things are better.” Please leave me alone. It has been horrible for me and many others to be exposed to the kinds of people who are allowed to “flourish” in this “community.”

> If you see people talking about me, please stop them or ask them to stop. If you see my work posted somewhere and have the power, please take it down. If you don’t have that power but you have a little free time, please file “dmca”s on my behalf or as me.

>>87869566
Was this the tranny who had a meltdown?

>>87870003
History is only as cool as the source that explains it. A tour guide or a plate that tells you that "This shit was built in honor of King Shitface, is tall as fuck and then somebody burned it, but it's fine now" is life draining experience. A plate or a tour guide who tells you that "This shit was built in honor of King Shitface by his secret lover, has a hidden basement full of skeletons, and as the legend tells, somebody was trapped between the walls for treason, and we found their bones, but as it turns out it wasn't this guy, but another guy who tried to find a hidden treasure of Sir Whatshisdeal and got himself stuck, and boy let me tell you about all the other weird shit that happend in here". History is full of fucking, shady deals, idiotic ideas and senseless violence. And the more you talk about it, the more interesting it is. Guess what's your typical Paris experience? There's a tower, there's a church, tall as fuck, take pictures, get the fuck out. It breaks my heart how this kind of shit makes people uninterested in our ancestry.

>>87871927
yes

>>87871963
>>87871927
Like many things, he only said he was a tranny for attention.

>>87871825
>Also, am I really going to have to save literally everything I ever enjoy because the internet isn't half as good as preserving these things as much as I'd like
I'm starting to realize this too. The internet archive is good but not perfect.

>>87871914
That's too bad

But if the stuff is saved on someone's harddrive I'm sure it'll come back into circulation

So, OP died already. There goes a potentially great evening.

>>87871914
I hope he dies.

>>87872403
everyone dies, anon

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>>87872254
I was trying to find a way to share the whole collection.

Does this work?
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0066ADD1094E97C35EF9C03324D04F164C8D51E2

>>87872672
Sure, it works. Thanks

Mega link would have been better

>>87871515
wow that's recent, she requested to get her name changed on pfsc's wiki article a couple weeks ago, at least she's still alive

does anybody have the alt text
see this is why you don't put half the fucking joke in the alt text
stop that shit, webcomic authors

>>87872846
Some things are lost forever

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>>87872846
I too would like those.

Here's the ones that I do have:
1. paul who is a ghost
2. i wish i'd died when living was interesting
3. rob is okay with it
4. i'll travel when i'm dead
5. wish i wished i wished you were here
6. paul who is a ghost who is in paris
7. huge slam on oklahoma out of nowhere
8.
9. inaccurate parisian skyline alert
10. the travel-weary ghost pokes an enthusiastic man
11. paul who is a ghost who is on a plane
12. a promise no terrorist can make
13. the crab zoo has some crabs in it
14. it is that time
15.
16. paul who is a ghost who can't get his job back
17. i had a drawer like that
18. he is.
19. in my version of diblert there is a lot more crying
20. tear free trust fund baby formula
21. paul who is a ghost who trains
22. for a moment gary wonders if death is communicable
23. are you certain that you are certain
24. gary gets to know paul
25. the comic that dares to stare
26. try it for yourself
27. one cannot argue with an eyewitness account
28. what
29. you're welcome
30. i hate that fucking bike
31. let us party, you and i
32. it was that guy

>>87872466
Hooray!

I think it's funny that such an ardent proponent of socialism believes he has a right to intellectual property

what a fucking hypocrite, if society finds value in art then that art belongs to society and he has no right to restrict its distribution

>>87872992
I find it hard to believe he's serious about any of it. At best he's mentally ill and needs help, at worst he's mentally ill and being a colossal faggot just because he can

>>87872672
>The priviledge of learning what people who don't have to work think about the world

Does he think this is deep?
He probably spends his time on r9k nowadays.

>>87873073
This guy either has paranoia or is the biggest fag around.

>>87873231
If it's a burn on social studies or philosophy, then he is right. If it's a burn on academics in whole, then he must be a social studies or philosophy graduate.

>>87873787
He's a guy who sat in his room doing DMT until it convinced him he was a tranny and that it was capitalism's fault and that he deserved to be payed for doing nothing but sitting in his room and "thinking"(read: doing DMT)

>>87872807
Pictures for Sad Children:
https://mega.nz/#!P1ZngaRR!OgcL0ZyG0Q6KocfSzP1Y07oHl8i40ydrRWiGepeRjS0

DMT Comic:
https://mega.nz/#!P4AQhYYT!yNDWUJUPeuPKcjFkPe_BYCX4-7nFFc2yjvBY7iFcQu0

>>87874127
If him thinking could mean more strips, then im cool with that, it's kind of my wet dream. If not, then fuck this guy.

>>87874522
No, he didn't want to be obligated to do anything in return for being given money.

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John was a big mess.
He probably still is.

>>87871943
this

never thought I'd find something like this on /co/

>>87871943
>>87870003
History has some cool stories.

But that's it.

Doesn't make one particular place any more worth living in than another.

>>87875618
Nothing to be said for being surrounded by art and architecture?

>>87875693
You live with anything long enough, it stops being special

i can not find the video of the books burning

god damn

>>87876094
Replace "telling me I am wonderful" with "giving me money"

Then send it to the author

>>87876212
Look on the kickstarter.

>>87875917
This, desu. I've always lived around the most beautiful views and lush landscape and now it's just...eh.
Like if I see a sunset that's just setting the whole world on fire and the mountains burn golden and the trees spread out like a city of pilgrims worshipping nothing but the sky
And it's just vaguely annoying. Beauty isn't real. It's just an arbitrary reason to maybe feel good.