― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
god puts it down BIG TIME!
― webber (webber), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
While the preachings and messages behind the Jack Chick comics are completely offensive to me, I think Chick is a great cartoonist. He has a style that's completely his own. All facial hyperboles, inconsistencies in the expressions, physical point of views in the panel, the dialog style... all very well done. (I'm saying this without irony.)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
are you on drugs? he makes the funniest webcomics i've ever seen.
it smells of devils and death - and god hates it!
― webber (webber), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 05:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 05:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 10:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 10:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
DB's point is actually right on -- Chick's style is definite and catchy, if certainly very easy to mock at the same time. Daniel Clowes has done a parody and there are plenty of others.
Chick was my first encounter with rapidly fundamentalist Christianity when I was very young, thanks to some tracts brought over by a babysitter when I was eight or nine. I was terribly upset by what I read in them, but thankfully my parents sorted it out very thoroughly. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 23:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 23:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.chick.com/images/whathappens.jpg
― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 02:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
new tract is out!
in this one, Jack Chick channels Robert Louis Stevenson as Officer OJ Simpson and Dr Kleiner search for a little girl who's apparently been kidnapped as a reward to converting to christianity! also, a pic of rumply, gorey jesus!
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Let a man with an eyepatch guide you to the "truth"
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.catholic.com/library/sr_chick_tracts_p2.asp
http://www.catholic.com/images/Image34.gifAnother of Chick’s attempts to link the Eucharist with paganism is found in his frequent depictions of the host imprinted with the letters IHS. He tells the reader that this stands for a trio of Egyptian gods (who were not a trinity, incidentally). Chick’s claim is nonsense. The letters aren’t English at all, but Greek. In fact, they are the first three letters of Jesus’ name in Greek: iota-eta-sigma (capital eta in Greek looks like the English H). This has been a common abbreviation for Jesus throughout Church history...
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 12 May 2005 06:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― 31g (31g), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I guess they lean on the hellfire imagery so much because they think scare tactics work better than honesty, and it's easier to churn out that kind of stuff than to put any actual thought into their work.
― Hutch (Hutch Renfro), Sunday, 10 September 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
im not sure they aren't being honest as far as their own loony theology is concerned.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
This is making me want to write to them with all kinds of suggestions. I could be like a double agent, telling them the REAL ways to convert people! Then one day, they realize how silly some of their theology is, and everyone lives happily ever after.
― Hutch (Hutch Renfro), Sunday, 10 September 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Wacky good times:
http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor_fidei/images/jackchick.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 June 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
My favourite Chick moment is where some arab claims that Islam has brought the United Kingdom to its knees. If it has, I really must not have been paying attention.
― chap, Sunday, 3 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
That's just the standard complaint of people like Mark Steyn. Their paranoia is depressing but amusing.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 June 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
HARRY POTTER, oh noes!
― kingfish, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i like
― gff, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
kinda long
― milo z, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I like how the essential conceit underpinning it is that MAGIC IS REAL
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/5018_04.gif
This has gotta be the coolest-looking kid ever! The shades, the ponytail, the hat, the skull and the peace sign!
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
haha wow
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
ranger hats are big with satanists these days I hear
uncle bob looks like john waters!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― river wolf, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
found via here
But it seems that when someone is campaigning against the book or the films, the leader of the campaign is invariably a fundamentalist Christian. For instance, fundamentalist Laura Mallory, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, tried to ban the Potter books from the public school library. She says the books have “evil themes” because they speak of witchcraft and spells. And the Bible clearly teaches such things are immoral. One child who opposed her efforts saw things more clearly. He said, “never at any time did I think the books are true.” But fundamentalists do think that there is truth in these books. Unlike most rational people, they do believe that witches and spells exist. They have no choice since the Bible condemns such things. To say they don’t exist questions the infallibility of Scripture. Most people are not offended by the theme of the Potter series because they don’t believe the “dark forces” actually exist...
― kingfish, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/Ockham/lisa4.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I came.
― KOOL-AID MAN, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
"Good news, honey. Your daddy and I will never hurt you again. You're about to be put in a foster placement and he's looking at some jail time for raping you anyway."
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"You got a job?" is an awesome pre-emptive shootdown of the I found God revelation though.
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
is it me or is it kinda weird that Chick just skips the actual praying both times in that strip. Like, I wonder what magic happens in those "10 minutes"
― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
This one's a doozy:http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Legendary, that one.
Wait is the dude still alive?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
88 apparently.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
thing i like about that one is that debbie learns the secret real spells beneath d&d as a reward for reaching level 8, which is like if the church of scientology told you about xenu and the volcanoes after you gave them $20.75
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Satanists are an undiscriminating bunch compared to Scientologists.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
"Dark Dungeons" is getting its own film adaptation, played straight.
http://darkdungeonsthemovie.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2Pr9jXCr8
How people have committed suicide due to RPGs?The American Association of Suicidology has concluded that RPGs don’t play a role in suicide, and the Association of Gifted-Creative Children of California did a survey of all psychological autopsies of adolescent suicides and could not find a single one that was linked to RPGs. However, that DOES NOT mean that it doesn’t happen. For all we know, BIG-GAMING may just be very good at covering them up.What evidence is there that RPG’s use real world spells?William Schnoebelen has publically stated that, as a witch high priest (Alexandrian tradition) during the period 1973-84, he was approached by a roleplaying company to make sure their spells were accurate; http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.aspIn addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real” which is why those dangers are exposed in Dark Dungeons the moviehttp://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp
The American Association of Suicidology has concluded that RPGs don’t play a role in suicide, and the Association of Gifted-Creative Children of California did a survey of all psychological autopsies of adolescent suicides and could not find a single one that was linked to RPGs. However, that DOES NOT mean that it doesn’t happen. For all we know, BIG-GAMING may just be very good at covering them up.
What evidence is there that RPG’s use real world spells?
William Schnoebelen has publically stated that, as a witch high priest (Alexandrian tradition) during the period 1973-84, he was approached by a roleplaying company to make sure their spells were accurate; http://www.chick.com/articles/dnd.asp
In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real” which is why those dangers are exposed in Dark Dungeons the movie
http://www.chick.com/articles/frpg.asp
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Thursday, 20 March 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
I call your use of the words "played straight" into question.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 20 March 2014 08:13 (ten years ago) link
Finally, something to fit that double bill with Mazes & Monsters!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 20 March 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Well they weren't winking directly into the camera lens, is what I'm saying.
Plus I enjoyed the shot of D20s splashing thru cheap movie blood syrup
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Thursday, 20 March 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
"In addition he warns us the “the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu mythos are quite real”
God I hope so
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 20 March 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
This was his life!
https://twitter.com/ChickPub/status/790604219376033792
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 October 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
somebody goofed :(
― electric wight dorkestra (crüt), Monday, 24 October 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
"Open the book of life!""His name does not appear Lord"
― everything, Monday, 24 October 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
So mentioning it on a public twitter account brings out the batshit rightwingers.
― emil.y, Monday, 24 October 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/10/24/haw-haw-haw/
...Chick’s cartoons were infused with the abominable fancy — the idea that the supreme delight awaiting true believers in Heaven would be that they got to watch the eternal torment of wicked sinners in Hell. That was pretty much the essence of Chick’s faith. Nowhere in his ubiquitous cartoon pamphlets would you find any hint of love for God, love for Jesus, or love for neighbor. That wasn’t what animated him. He was driven, instead, by the eschatological hope that one day God would settle all the arguments he was never able to win here on earth — settle them with remorseless, bloodthirsty finality.[...]That stunted, hostile form of religion was expressed not just in Chick’s tracts, but in the way those tracts were employed as a kind of passive-aggressive “evangelism.” This was never primarily an attempt to “seek and to save the lost,” but rather a way of fulfilling some perceived minimal obligation that would exculpate believers from any responsibility for the longed-for damnation of others. These tracts, in other words, don’t seem to be distributed in the hope that others will read them and “get saved,” but with the idea that they will make it impossible for the doomed and damned to claim they were never told. They weren’t an attempt to nudge others toward Heaven, but to amplify the case that they deserved Hell.When someone gives you a Jack Chick tract, it’s not because they don’t want you to go to Hell, it’s because they don’t want you to be able to blame them for not warning you before you do. They’re just hoping to dispel any potential guilt that might one day detract from their full enjoyment of the abominable fancy. They want to look down from Heaven and watch your eternal torment in Hell unbothered by any lingering regret.
[...]
That stunted, hostile form of religion was expressed not just in Chick’s tracts, but in the way those tracts were employed as a kind of passive-aggressive “evangelism.” This was never primarily an attempt to “seek and to save the lost,” but rather a way of fulfilling some perceived minimal obligation that would exculpate believers from any responsibility for the longed-for damnation of others. These tracts, in other words, don’t seem to be distributed in the hope that others will read them and “get saved,” but with the idea that they will make it impossible for the doomed and damned to claim they were never told. They weren’t an attempt to nudge others toward Heaven, but to amplify the case that they deserved Hell.
When someone gives you a Jack Chick tract, it’s not because they don’t want you to go to Hell, it’s because they don’t want you to be able to blame them for not warning you before you do. They’re just hoping to dispel any potential guilt that might one day detract from their full enjoyment of the abominable fancy. They want to look down from Heaven and watch your eternal torment in Hell unbothered by any lingering regret.
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
good riddance to human garbage. and human garbage who sucked at drawing!
― ian, Monday, 24 October 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
A collection of mock Tracts: some worthwhile, others are weird.
http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
Does anybody know where I would find the spoof one, I think repurposed from the real D&D one, where the girl screams "I'll destroy anyone who opposes the furious countercultural assault of noise music"?
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link