Mr. Lovenstein

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About

Mr. Lovenstein is a webcomic by J.L. Westover known for its dark humor paired with a soft, cartoonish art style.

History

On September 22nd, 2010, cartoonist J.L. Westover uploaded the first Mr. Lovenstein comic to the Mr. Lovenstein website (shown below).^[1] As of June 23rd, 2017, he has posted 886 comics.

On January 28th, 2015,^[5] he launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a book of his works, which made over $12,000, $3,000 more than its goal. On November 28th, 2016, his work was featured in a listicle from Blaze Press.^[6]

Online Presence

Westover has a large following online, with over 14,200 Twitter followers,^[2] 264,000 Facebook likes^[3] and 29,600 Instagram followers.^[4]

Das Good Shit

Das Good Shit is a series of exploitables based on a four-panel Mr. Lovenstein comic. Online, people have customized the third panel of Westover's comic, so that the character in red will refer to whatever they want as "good shit."

Thanks To The Miracle of the World Wide Web

Thanks To The Miracle Of The World Wide Web is an exploitable of the Mr. Lovenstein comic "Hello, World." In the comic, an optimistic character says "Thanks to the miracle of the world wide web, I can talk to anyone around the globe." He then looks at the computer screen where his response to "Hello World!" reads "Kill yourself," to which he says, "Marvelous." In the variations, what is in the computer screen is altered.