# Jack Chick has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627 "2016-10-24T21:13:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/41 "2016-10-25T13:40:44Z")
I get that the world has lost a derisively ignorant and hate-fueled religious and political comic artist. Later in my years, it was fun to read them and to laugh at how deliciously awful, misleading and ignorant they truly were. But for this evangelically-raised guy in his early years, he made growing up in the 80s a pain in the fucking ass. Good riddance, dickhead. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/42 "2016-10-25T14:03:38Z")
I wonder if this means the end of Chick Publications for good. The reduced output in recent time, even with the new artists on board, if attributable not just to a drop in demand but to his increasing infirmity, would suggest a continuing high degree of dependence on Jack himself for direction. (One wonders if he/they would have noticed their status as Internet Point And Laugh buttmonkeys and thought to themselves that they were worse off making all those people laugh at the message – but their “almost everyone goes to Hell” attitude would seem to make them impervious to that. I mean, really, the guy thought even “Christian Rock” was a satanic plot\*… ) (\* it isn’t: it just sucks badly.) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/43 "2016-10-25T14:27:41Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Who Will Be Eaten First?](https://jackchick.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/chick-parody-who-will-be-eaten-first/) That was my favorite! ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/44 "2016-10-25T14:34:41Z")
I do remember, the first time I saw a Chick tract, I thought it was a parody. I actually have enjoyed reading them through the years. Funny stuff, if read with the proper attitude! Especially if you were raised in a fundamentalist-type setting. (I was raised in the super-fundy “Churches of Christ”, but the programming never really “took” on me.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/45 "2016-10-25T17:13:59Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I do remember, the first time I saw a Chick tract, I thought it was a parody. He really did write that way and it definitely reached parody level. Anti-RPG, anti-pope, anti-rock music really has not been a thing for a long time. Chick’s group/church was borderline cult at this point due to the small amount of people that must adhere to his views. KJV only is certainly fringe. Anti-catholic(Catholics aren’t Christians, etc.) is pretty fringe too at this point. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/46 "2016-10-25T22:42:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > There was one attempt to find him and interview him. I think they did get a hold of him and found him to be unassuming and nice. He was just really private and uninterested in fame of any kind. There was the 2003 feature in the UK’s _Independent on Sunday_ that tried to track him down. The article doesn’t appear to be online anymore and references to it appear basically fleeting. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/47 "2016-10-26T00:40:17Z")
> [@bonzer](#): > > There was the 2003 feature in the UK’s _Independent on Sunday_ that tried to track him down. The article doesn’t appear to be online anymore and references to it appear basically fleeting. Yeah, I think you got it. I am surprised I could not find it. [I believe they are the ones who found this more recent picture of him, which someone told them they had because Chick visited their church. The guy on the left is him, I believe(even though he is pointing to the right).](http://jimmyakin.com/wp-content/uploads/img81.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![GinoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@GinoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GinoC)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/48 "2016-10-26T04:26:44Z")
Go to The Bible Reloaded channel on YouTube and you can watch Hugo and Jake hilariously skewer the phenomenonally narrow-minded idiocy of a large number of Chick tracts. If he influenced only a few people with his fundamentalist nonsense, he made the world a worse place. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/49 "2016-10-26T04:48:17Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > I do remember, the first time I saw a Chick tract, I thought it was a parody. > > I actually have enjoyed reading them through the years. Funny stuff, if read with the proper attitude! His shtick wasn’t satire, no matter how it may be viewed by some. Art survives and evolves without the artist but how you feel about this human being is directly tied to what HE thought he was doing. And his motives and understanding are nothing but deplorable. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/50 "2016-10-26T04:51:40Z")
> [@GinoC](#): > > Go to The Bible Reloaded channel on YouTube and you can watch Hugo and Jake hilariously skewer the phenomenonally narrow-minded idiocy of a large number of Chick tracts. If he influenced only a few people with his fundamentalist nonsense, he made the world a worse place. They’re hilarious, even though they tend to go off on loooong tangents. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/51 "2016-10-26T06:54:07Z")
I have to admit, I’m kind of surprised he’s a real person and not some Dread Pirate Roberts thing. ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/52 "2016-10-26T14:26:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, I think you got it. I am surprised I could not find it. > > [I believe they are the ones who found this more recent picture of him, which someone told them they had because Chick visited their church. The guy on the left is him, I believe(even though he is pointing to the right).](http://jimmyakin.com/wp-content/uploads/img81.jpg) Nifty! Good to be able to put a face to the cartoonist, at long last. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/53 "2016-10-26T15:51:12Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I have to admit, I’m kind of surprised he’s a real person and not some Dread Pirate Roberts thing. Yeah that was one if the fascinating things - behind these crazy tracts there was this one real creator/producer who was truly in earnest dead serious about it, and actually got this outfit up and running and even projecting internationally (during the rise of ultrafundamentalism as a reaction to the 60s/70s culture war). All that while he was still a fringe of the fringe. I dare say manyfold more people may have picked up the nearly conventional This Was Your Life at the bus station phone booth but then gone in to join a regular church, than sought out a Chicktian congregation to go deeper into the weirdness of Dark Dungeons or The Death Cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/54 "2016-10-26T16:15:46Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > For his sake I hope there is an afterlife, and it’s just like in all of his chick tracts _but minus the last few panels_. So it’s everylasting games of dungeons and dragons played by gay catholics on halloween. Haw, haw, haw! That’s one of the big problems with being an atheist. Even if you’re right you don’t get to sit back and say I told you so. ☹ The tracts are still out there, I picked[this one](http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0045/0045_01.asp) up off a bench in a grocery store a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/55 "2016-10-26T16:32:43Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > That’s one of the big problems with being an atheist. Even if you’re right you don’t get to sit back and say I told you so. ☹ > . And if you’re wrong, you just know Pascal’s gonna be enough of a schmuck to do so every chance he gets for the rest of eternity 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/56 "2016-10-26T16:51:00Z")
I was looking through some of his tracts and don’t see any instance of **HAW!** Does someone have a cite? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/57 "2016-10-26T17:04:04Z")
[Here you go…](https://twentyfiveforty.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/haw-haw-haw-a-perspective-on-jack-chick/) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/58 "2016-10-26T17:16:49Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > [Here you go…](https://twentyfiveforty.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/haw-haw-haw-a-perspective-on-jack-chick/) Thankkewverymuch! Now I get it. ---
**Author:** ![GinoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@GinoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GinoC)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/59 "2016-10-26T17:55:44Z")
A good perspective by Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist: [The Strange Legacy of Jack Chick - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PexgsFolvfU&feature=youtu.be) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627/60 "2016-10-26T22:13:56Z")
He seemed to know his Bible–to some extent. I found at least one passage (from James) flagrantly taken out of context: “The devils believe, and tremble.” The only thing I was ever sure he was “ignorant” of was litter laws–I have from time to time found his tracts lying on the ground, near a church. Give Caesar his due. He seemed to be hard-line Baptist…I could never accept that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-chick-has-died/769627.md?page=4)