# Cartoonist Brant Parker (Wizard of Id) dies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564 "2007-04-18T02:12:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564/1 "2007-04-18T02:12:40Z")

</div>

Brant Parker, cartoonist and co-creator of _The Wizard of Id_, has [died.](http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0416parker-obit0416-ON.html), not too soon after his _Id_ collaborator Johnny Hart, who wrote the strip.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564/2 "2007-04-18T02:17:11Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=mobo85]  
Brant Parker, cartoonist and co-creator of _The Wizard of Id_, has [died.](http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0416parker-obit0416-ON.html), not too soon after his _Id_ collaborator Johnny Hart, who wrote the strip.  
[/QUOTE]

I hope you meant “not too long” – otherwise you must have _really_ not liked that strip.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564/3 "2007-04-18T02:21:22Z")

</div>

That’s bizzare, coming so soon after Hart. Does this mean that they need to find a new illustrator, too? It seems like, with both of them being replaced at essentially the same time, it might cause something of a discontinuity in the strip. Or are they going to retire it?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564/4 "2007-04-18T02:37:16Z")

</div>

“Wizard of Id” has been around so long, they could probably just run strips from 40 years ago, like my local paper does with “Peanuts”.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cartoonist-brant-parker-wizard-of-id-dies/400564/5 "2007-04-18T02:53:39Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Chronos]  
That’s bizzare, coming so soon after Hart. Does this mean that they need to find a new illustrator, too? It seems like, with both of them being replaced at essentially the same time, it might cause something of a discontinuity in the strip. Or are they going to retire it?  
[/QUOTE]

According to the linked article, the Wizard strip will continue as a collaboration between the Parker and Hart families. Parker’s son has been drawing the strip since 1997.