― 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
+ the story of saul going to see the witch is one of the funniest things in the bible
― gff, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged
...Hosts Robert S.McGee, author of The Search For Significance, and Caryl Matrisciana, author and occult researcher, answer these questions and show Rowling's presentation of the following elements of Witchcraft: Mother Goddess, evolution, reincarnation, communing with the dead and spirit world, seasonal nature celebrations, sorcery, divination, spells, curses, meditation, occult symbology, black magic, demon possession, "dark" aspects of Witchcraft, and more.
Viewers will see how young readers today, more than any other time in history, have an abundance of occult resources easily available to them. They will also learn how to answer difficult questions and clearly explain the Harry Potter series to their children, grandchildren and concerned friends...
oh no, meditation! evolution!
http://www.atlanticbullionandcoin.com/images/HarryPotter.jpg
But I like how ever the discerning duo of Cox & Forkum laugh at these folks:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/WizardHunt-X.gif
― kingfish, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I love this bit of classic Chick dialogue in the "Bad Bob" comic cited in the link with the photo of Jack Chick that Ned linked to above.
Middle-aged woman: Bad Bob is crude, rude, and socially unacceptable, but we just love him! Middle aged woman #2: Bob's the best connection we've ever had. He can get us acid, smack, dust, coke, speed and black beauties. It's too bad he's such a sleaze.
― dell, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
why does that witch have no head?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
haha "evolution" given as example of "witchcraft"
*gasp* they used the scientific method! BURN THE WITCHES!
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing about the anti-Harry Potter hysteria that I think is especially misguided is that, the books are essentially benign fantasy novels, much as Tolkien's output was to earlier generations...I can't imagine being a kid and reading the books and then being inspired to pursue actual witchcraft. The fundamentalist Christian contingent's energies would presumably be better spent getting upset about those actual witchcraft-for-teens cutesy books that are marketed towards adolescent girls...or the simple fact that kids can look up all manner of occult stuff on the web.
I actually do believe that one can in some sense manipulate occult energies or draw up "dark" forces, but I can't imagine Harry Potter books or films ever being a "gateway" seducing kids into those sorts of practices. At most, it's a gateway towards dressing up as characters from the book during Halloween, or buying more Harry Potter merchandise, or...actually sitting down and reading a book instead of playing video games or watching television.
― dell, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
bad bob has always been one of my favorite chick tracts:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_05.gif
― Eisbaer, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
corny indie fuXors love God!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/0021_08.gif
― Eisbaer, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1033/1033_01.asp
Ah man, some of these recent ones are fuckin doozies - kids becoming serial killers because they found out Santa's not real and a judge being allowed to try a kid whose life he'd previously saved, despite having sent him a birthday card every year. This guy just keeps on GIVING.
― That mong guy that's shit, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
holy crap, i was just about to look for a chick thread to revive to brag that i found the "trust me!" tract on the sidewalk this afternoon.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0025/0025_01.asp
― get bent, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:35 (sixteen 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