Jack Chick, dudes!

The best "WHAAAAAT?" moment is probably in "The Sissy?", when a grizzled and anti-god trucker is won over thusly:

TRUCKER: In my book, any man that turns the other cheek is a chump!
CHICK SURROGATE: Duke...if God almighty could turn himself into a man, like us, with all that power still inside him... and some dude asked him to fight... who would win?
TRUCKER: HEY! That wouldn't be a fair fight... the God-Man would KILL him!

If there's anything worth celebrating about these tracts it's probably their amazingly clever re-use of old art where necessary. I seem to remember a soccer story and a basketball story using the exact same frames, with only dialogue changes necessary to smooth over the difference. Chick really seemed driven to think of everything a person could possibly be into and build it into a narrative along with his usual themes.

The Imp #2 (zine by um... google... Dan Raeburn) offered an extended commentary on Chick's work - if memory serves, it was a shockingly exhaustive piece, combining the available biographical snippets and chronological facts to chart the evolution of Chick's drawing and storytelling style...

Also, ALL HAIL PANTS! AND ALSO SATAN!

Where does he get his money from? My friend wrote to him asking for some tracts for a giggle, and got airmailed him a box of like a hundred to the UK (a country that 'Islam has brought to its knees', by the way) for free.

Fred Carter.

This is a widely held view among Christian nut-jobs, if by "pro-Jew" you mean "pro-Israel". I don't think Chick is pro-Jew in any real sense - there is one which explicitly states that non-Christian Jews are all DAMNED.

Fundies love Jews the way stalkers love stalkees.

HARRY POTTER, oh noes!

Haha, that's awesome. I want a print one.

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Classic! http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

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Spotted a tract in the wild last weekend... Resting on top of a mailbox in the New York New York casino in Las Vegas.

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how's it feel to be born again?

DO these all end with "START WITH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN" or were those the Archie Xtian comics?

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There's a 99% chance Jack Chick is totally evil, 1% chance he is the comic genius

"don't worry henry, jesus will forgive you for being a nonce, just like he forgave all those priests."

what's the % chance he's insane? everything i've read about him paints him as being a very savvy marketeer.
is there anyone carrying the torch for jack chick in webcomics?

don't worry henry, jesus will forgive you for being a nonce, just like he forgave all those priests."

lol Chick's not very favorably inclined to Catholicism FYI

it's pretty clear he's totally bonkers from what few personal details have emerged

there was a guy in the 90s who did a comic-book length analysis of Jack Chick, went to his offices to meet him, etc. blanking on his name, having trouble googling it

kinda shocked there's no mention of the guy turning himself in to the cops at the end of that comic... just says soz and gets a do-over :/

my favorite exchange is when henry tells his wife that she just made the situation worse

re: jack chick analysis, was it Dan Raeburn?

it just seemed that the bonkers comics was a means to an end, and he himself is just regular xian bonkers.

ah yes that's him. The Imp #2.

cool he put it up for free online!
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his chris ware book is amazing if that's the one i'm thinking about. you feel like you are absolved of any cosmic responsibility to be a cultural custodian of chris ware, because he's in good hands.

“Fill me with your love,” a man prays on his knees, his rump turned to face the reader: “I’m vile and unworthy.”

i find i have an abstract affection for the catholic-hating evangelicals, cos it seems like they're already in a lost world

but there's probably a hell of a lot of them still around.

I like the kid who introduces himself with "The kids call me slime because my parents are still married."

Implying that Chick thinks kids whose parents are divorced are godless sinners?

it just seemed that the bonkers comics was a means to an end, and he himself is just regular xian bonkers.

I agree. I think he's currently catering to the tastes of the people who read his comics as camp in the hope of saving a few souls among the way, and I'm bothered that everyone is taking his bait.

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from 4chan or something? funny anyway.

rage out and peace hard, fucknuts...

♫ cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort ♫

"sup, dickweed? how come you got a rope around your neck and shit?"

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I streamed Krull last night; that shit is truly unwatchable

The video game wasn't that hot either.

I like the idea of a Jack Chick videogame.

You would have to make loads of different choices, and at the end you would be sent to Hell by God.

"Jill, you have an unseen enemy. His name is God."

"But don't worry, because God hates everyone. At least according to Jack Chick."

"Jill I'm serious! Chick says that you can be a Christian missionary and still go to Hell, just because you didn't attempt to convert any of the people you helped."

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