Cartoonist Jack Chick on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: American fundamentalist Christian cartoonist Jack Chick died on this day in 2016. You've probably come across a small pocket-sized religious cartoon, as it is claimed that almost 900 million copies of the cartoons have been printed and sold in 102 languages to missionaries, churches, youth groups and others. I remember in Canada these were usually left on bus seats or phone booths. 

Many of Chick's views were controversial, as he accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, gays and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. He despised Halloween, Harry Potter, The Walking Dead, anime and Dungeons and Dragons. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing." Catholic Answers has called Chick "savagely anti-Catholic", describes Chick's statements about the Catholic Church as "bizarre" and "often grotesque in their arguments."

Chick's other prime targets were: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Jews, Hindus Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, teenagers, atheists, witches, Commies, Rock music, gluons and gravity, Obelisks, Native Americans and their gods and Family Guy.

Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a premillennial dispensationalist view of the End Times. He was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.