I must say I’ve never heard of this Chick guy until recently, on these very boards in fact. I found his biography quite amusing. Never seen a biography where failing grade 1 was mentioned as something to be proud of.
I asked this question once. There were a few sites from people who claimed to have met him. As far as I’m concerned, this is still an open question, however.
I tried to Google things in his biography without success. There are no pictures available of him. There is no listing of him in the phone book, no publicly available birth records etc… The drawing styles have varied dramatically over the years and I am willing to bet that more than one artist has been used.
As I said, there are one or two people who claim to have interviewed Chick, but realistically, how would they know they were talking to him? No one knows what he looks like.
I’m not saying he doesn’t exist, he very well may. There’s damn little trace of him, however.
The really fucked up thing about this is that while today’s Americans remember the “drunken Indian” trope, but they are totally clueless as to how much the colonists drank, and that early European Americans rank among the most drunken peoples of all human history. We drank more, and more hard liquor, and more for every man woman and child, than almost any other stereotypical drinking minority, including the Irish. Public drunkeness was such a big problem that it’s complained about in nearly every text about society at the time. DT was first observed and described here en masse because it was so common. We’ve litterally erased this part of our history out of our collective memory. We forget that we paid many of our soldiers in booze. We forget what a huge portion of our early farm industry was devoted to making booze, which was astronomically more profitable than growing crops for food. And in one great example, the painting of the Golden Spike ceremony contains jsut a bunch of fine chaps standing around at the ceremony. Pictures and descriptions of the event, however, reveal that people were dirty, drunk off their asses, and hanging out with a gaggle of prostitutes.
Even sillier is that all the iniatial history about Native American reactions to the introduction of European alcohol was that most drank in moderation and acted fine under the influence. It was only after they saw how colonists acted when drunk that any more aggressive drunken behavior spread: which squares with what we know about alcohol: people generrally act drunk the way they think they are supposed to act when drunk.
Geez and I thought it was just a bunch of puritans burning witches. Your version sounds like waaaaay more fun.
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Jack Chick is God ??? :eek:
AFAIK Chick never claimed to have drawn all the tracts himself. IIRC Several are credited to other artists.
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I had the same thought. Oppressive looking big brick building, with a small, unadorned opening and big placards ‘Good thing inside!’. Even though I knew it was a Chick tract, I kept expecting the opening to turn out to be the mouth of a cartoon cat, or for Jesus to wash away everybody’s sins with zyklon b.
Clairobscur if Jack Chick is G-d, I’m gonna go out and eat a bunch of ham wrapped in shrimp and bacon, then worship some idols.
Jack Chick is the BIZARRO CECIL ADAMS!!!