# Jack Chick Documentary !! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665 "2009-10-05T14:02:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/1 "2009-10-05T14:02:05Z")
I just stumbled across this. I had no idea it existed (or if anyone here has posted about it previously). But I KNOW you’d be interested: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236451/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236451/) > [@](#): > > **God’s Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick** > > A documentary about the world’s most published and controversial comic artist: Jack T. Chick. His cartoons, conspiracies, and controversies are revealed for the first time on screen. Both critics and supporters give a complete view of this mysterious recluse, the invisible mastermind behind the Chick comic book Empire. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/2 "2009-10-05T14:44:50Z")
It’s not available thru Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/3 "2009-10-05T16:04:18Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I just stumbled across this. I had no idea it existed (or if anyone here has posted about it previously). But I KNOW you’d be interested: > [God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick (2008) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1236451/) HAW HAW! I’m interested - I just found out that I know people whom know and even have socialized with ol’ Chickie-poo. Makes him _almost_ relavent to my world… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/4 "2009-10-05T16:42:45Z")
That had that not too long ago on the Documentary (Doc?) Channel. It wasn’t too bad, but it was incredibly dry in several places. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/5 "2009-10-05T19:28:17Z")
There’s a trailer for it on YouTube, though: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/S3KcxJPi7Mo/hqdefault.jpg "God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack T. Chick TRAILER") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3KcxJPi7Mo) And you can buy it: > **[Amazon.com: God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick : Rev. Ivan Stang,...](https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Cartoonist-Comic-Crusade-Chick/dp/B0019PXRAU)** > > For nearly forty years, Chick Publications under the leadership of Jack T Chick has published over three quarters of a billion religious tracts that have been distributed in over 100 languages around the world. In the process, Jack Chick's name has... ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/6 "2009-10-06T14:36:51Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > HAW HAW! > > I’m interested - I just found out that I know people whom know and even have socialized with ol’ Chickie-poo. Makes him _almost_ relavent to my world… He’s REAL? I thought he was a pen name for several writers. I’m a little freaked out now. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-documentary/512665/7 "2009-10-06T17:03:02Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > He’s REAL? I thought he was a pen name for several writers. I’m a little freaked out now. I have no idea if he writes all, or even any, of the stuff that goes above his name, but there is a real man named Jack Thomas Chick, and he’s the guy claiming those… _entertaining_ comics.