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.
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.)
That was my favorite!
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
They’re hilarious, even though they tend to go off on loooong tangents.
I have to admit, I’m kind of surprised he’s a real person and not some Dread Pirate Roberts thing.
Nifty! Good to be able to put a face to the cartoonist, at long last.
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.
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 pickedthis one up off a bench in a grocery store a couple of weeks ago.
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 
I was looking through some of his tracts and don’t see any instance of HAW! Does someone have a cite?
Thankkewverymuch! Now I get it.
A good perspective by Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist: The Strange Legacy of Jack Chick - YouTube
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.
