Post by annaj26 on Oct 25, 2016 12:00:24 GMT -5
Jack Chick, religious cartoonist and publisher, dies at 92
Jack T. Chick’s most popular tract, published in 1964, is titled “This Was Your Life!” Riffing on the then-popular reality-TV series, it tells the story of a high-living atheist who drops dead of a heart attack and is whisked to the gates of heaven, forced to review his life’s lowlights and, too late, plead for forgiveness.
Chick, who died Sunday at age 92 at home in San Dimas, would expect a better reception, the one given to the protagonist in the tract’s second ending, in which the man has repented.
Chick Publications’ Facebook page illustrated its announcement of its founder’s death with the final panel of that alternate ending, in which a faceless man on a throne surrounded by light says: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant — enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!”
“He wanted one thing, to go in his sleep,” employee David Daniels said Monday. “And God granted it.”
Based in a low-profile office in Rancho Cucamonga since 1970, Chick Publications has sent out nearly 900 million tracts in 102 languages. The pocket-sized tracts, stapled on the side, with white-on-black titles and simple art, are instantly recognizable and much parodied.
He’s said to be the world’s most published living author, his books displayed at the Smithsonian Institution and praised by underground comic artists such as Robert Crumb. Some comics fans and creators, including “Ghost World” artist and scenarist Daniel Clowes, have been fascinated by his work even while finding it repellent.
Rocker Jack White cited him in a 2014 song, “Black Bat Licorice”: “She writes letters like a Jack Chick comic/Just a bunch of propaganda to make my fingers histrionic.”
Monday, “Daily Show” senior writer Daniel Radosh tweeted: “Jack Chick has died. Setting aside, well, everything else about him & his message, he did amazingly weird, influential outsider art.”
“The reclusive king of the scaremongers, Chick railed against everything from gay rights and Dungeons & Dragons to Freemasonry and the Catholic church — which he believed instigated the Holocaust, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War …” wrote the A.V. Club pop-culture website about his death.
His books have been banned in Canada, denounced by Christianity Today and the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and ejected from Christian bookstores.
Daniels, the company’s author and researcher since 2000 who said he was Chick’s chosen successor, said Chick is misunderstood as hateful when really he was a humble, hard-working man who produced “love literature,” not hate literature.
the rest
www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20161024/jack-chick-religious-cartoonist-and-publisher-dies-at-92
Jack T. Chick’s most popular tract, published in 1964, is titled “This Was Your Life!” Riffing on the then-popular reality-TV series, it tells the story of a high-living atheist who drops dead of a heart attack and is whisked to the gates of heaven, forced to review his life’s lowlights and, too late, plead for forgiveness.
Chick, who died Sunday at age 92 at home in San Dimas, would expect a better reception, the one given to the protagonist in the tract’s second ending, in which the man has repented.
Chick Publications’ Facebook page illustrated its announcement of its founder’s death with the final panel of that alternate ending, in which a faceless man on a throne surrounded by light says: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant — enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!”
“He wanted one thing, to go in his sleep,” employee David Daniels said Monday. “And God granted it.”
Based in a low-profile office in Rancho Cucamonga since 1970, Chick Publications has sent out nearly 900 million tracts in 102 languages. The pocket-sized tracts, stapled on the side, with white-on-black titles and simple art, are instantly recognizable and much parodied.
He’s said to be the world’s most published living author, his books displayed at the Smithsonian Institution and praised by underground comic artists such as Robert Crumb. Some comics fans and creators, including “Ghost World” artist and scenarist Daniel Clowes, have been fascinated by his work even while finding it repellent.
Rocker Jack White cited him in a 2014 song, “Black Bat Licorice”: “She writes letters like a Jack Chick comic/Just a bunch of propaganda to make my fingers histrionic.”
Monday, “Daily Show” senior writer Daniel Radosh tweeted: “Jack Chick has died. Setting aside, well, everything else about him & his message, he did amazingly weird, influential outsider art.”
“The reclusive king of the scaremongers, Chick railed against everything from gay rights and Dungeons & Dragons to Freemasonry and the Catholic church — which he believed instigated the Holocaust, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War …” wrote the A.V. Club pop-culture website about his death.
His books have been banned in Canada, denounced by Christianity Today and the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and ejected from Christian bookstores.
Daniels, the company’s author and researcher since 2000 who said he was Chick’s chosen successor, said Chick is misunderstood as hateful when really he was a humble, hard-working man who produced “love literature,” not hate literature.
the rest
www.dailynews.com/obituaries/20161024/jack-chick-religious-cartoonist-and-publisher-dies-at-92
