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The Comics and Brimstone of Jack T. Chick, 1924-2016
The Comics and Brimstone of Jack T. Chick, 1924-2016
Depending on where you live, you might have seen them everywhere. On the bus; on the subway; in the parking lot of Walmart. You might have been handed one instead of candy at Halloween. If you had the audacity to wait tables on a Sunday morning, you might have had one left for you as a tip. They're those little rectangular pamphlets that contain what seem at first to be innocuous comic strips, with a smiling jack o' lantern or a child dressed as a ghost on the cover. When you open them, however, they turn out to be what Los Angeles magazine has described as “equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing.” They're Chick tracts, the work and legacy of one Jack T. Chick, who died October 23, 2016, at the age of 92.
Jack Chick's 'Dark Dungeons' Tract Gets A Live Action Movie
Jack Chick's 'Dark Dungeons' Tract Gets A Live Action Movie
Jack Chick's Dark Dungeons is one of my favorite comics of all time. Originally released in 1984 at the height of the "Satanic Panic" surrounding Dungeons & Dragons and its (completely imaginary) link to devil worship, actual real-life magic and human sacrifice, it told the story of a young woman who got trapped in the sordid, wicked world of roleplaying games, a world fraught with s
Parting Shot: Jack Chick Draws Surprisingly Good ‘Family Guy’ Fan Art
Parting Shot: Jack Chick Draws Surprisingly Good ‘Family Guy’ Fan Art
Man, who knew that in addition to illustrating anti-Catholic, anti-Islamic, anti-gay, fundamentalist Christian propaganda tracts, Jack Chick draws alarmingly decent Family Guy fan art? He's even got the angry Stewie eyes down pat. This comes from "Still No Revival," a comic about the moral decline of modern America (hint: homosexuals) and how much better things were 50 years ago... Read