Questionable content

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The draftsman Jeph Jacques

Questionable Content (German: "sensitive content") is an English- slice-of-life - Webcomic of the US-American Jeph Jacques , which has been published since August 1st of 2003. It mainly tells of the everyday events of a group of young people and the development of their interpersonal relationships. It has been published on weekdays since September 2004, previously twice a week.

background

Jacques is now working full-time on the comic. He earns money by selling books , T-shirts with motifs from comics and other fan merchandise , donations and a Patreon account. The latter enables paying members to read comic strips 24 hours before publication.

Many comic strips are accompanied by a short contribution by the author, who provides background information, (very) briefly commented on the event, or reports on the author's life. There is also a separate internet forum .

The first 1799 comic strips were published in print in 6 volumes.

world

Questionable Content takes place predominantly in the American city of Northampton (Massachusetts) , where Jacques lived for a long time. For large parts of the comic, the fictional Café Coffee of Doom is the central location. Different characters are employed there. Others study or work in a university library. The world is similar to the present, but it also has science fiction elements.

A number of characters belong to ethnic, sexual, or other minorities. One of the world's own minority are artificial intelligences on a normally roughly human level, which almost always live in anthropomorphic robotic bodies. You have professional, friendly, romantic and sexual relationships with people and with one another.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is questionablecontent.net? . frogged.de. March 16, 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  2. ^ The new webcomic entrepreneurs ( English ) The Boston Globe. August 2, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Frank Bramlett: The role of culture in comics of the quotidian . In: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics . tape 6 , no. 3 , July 3, 2015, ISSN  2150-4857 , p. 246-259 , doi : 10.1080 / 21504857.2014.1002853 ( tandfonline.com [accessed August 13, 2020]).
  4. ^ Gibson, Rebecca: Desire in the age of robots and AI: investigations in science fiction and fact . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2020, ISBN 978-3-03024017-2 , pp. 114–121 ( springer.com [accessed August 13, 2020]).