The Maker of Chick Gospel tracts, www.chick.com
after he eventually dies, will the world get to know about this mystery man?
Oh god, those tracts are hilarious. They are so overwrought and hysterical. Gotta admit though, overall, they had some great artwork in them. Definitely gotta give 'em props for the art.
I've seen better artwork on refridgerator doors.
To each his own. I admit that some of the art in those little pamphlets can be bad, but overall, for what it is, the Jack T. Chick tracts have some fairly good art. It's the "stories" that are really bad.
Yes! A board dedicated to Jack T. Chick, the comic world's answer to Jonathan Edwards!
I was first introduced to these cartoon tracts by a college religion professor who liked to write essays pointing out the flaws in their theology. They are hilarious, but also a little frightening (not for the fire-and-brimstone theology itself, but for the fact that there are intelligent people out there who believe this stuff.) Actually, I have to credit Jack Chick for helping me stop believing in hell. The portrayal of hell in these comics is so ridiculous it helped make me see what an absurd concept hell is.
Typical Chick plot: The main character leads his life doing good works, and then at the end of the comic dies and finds himself in hell because he made the mistake of not being a Christian. Often he or she is misled into wickedness by a deceiver who turns out to be, unmasked at the denouement of the tale, Satan or one of his arch-demons. Anti-semetism, Anti-catholicism, and homophobia abound in these fun-filled mags.
Check out these two great humor related sites devoted to the works of this crusader of the comics:
http://www.members.aol.com/monsterwax/chick.html
And the Jack T. Chick Parody archive at:
http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick
I've always wondered if Jack Chick were a real
person.
Why not? You don't think there are enough fundies out there who believe this?
The last one I read was the one about Thanksgiving, and I was appalled at how he twisted the helpfulness of the Indians (pagans, after all) into God guiding them, so they could become Christians. Not a word about how the Pilgrims repayed their kindness by killing them later. Okay, that might not be told at a normal Thanksgiving, either... but he believes he tells the "true" history in his Halloween tracts, so why not Thanksgiving?
For that matter, while Chick's busy perpretrating that Halloween is associated with Satan (instead of Beltane, a pagan ritual), he doesn't seem to be aware of the pagan roots of "Giving thanks for the fruits (at the end of the harvest)" = Thanksgiving. (Over here, we simply celebrate it by bringing a sample of fruits to the altar during the first Sunday of October, and reminding people that although the supermarkets are full of food, that we shouldn't take that for granted. No turkey, no family together business.)
Oh, obviously there are people who believe this. I think Scott just wonders if "Jack T. Chick" is a real person or just an alias for a group of people.
You frequently see the not-nutty Chick tracts around my campus: the most familiar are "This Was Your Life" and one about a famous person that dies (called "The Champ" or "The Star," I think there's several different forms). These are pretty "good" for what they're trying to get across.
The best Chick tract I've seen is probably "A Demon's Nightmare" about several comedic demons trying to get a young boy to do bad, as it has a sense of humor about the whole thing. The most unintentionally funny are, of course, the nutty tracts--"Death Cookie," or whatever it's called, taking on the Catholic communion; a tract linking Catholics to Nazis; a tract linking Masons to Satanists, ooh, boy.
He had one linking any rock & roll, even Christian Rock to satanism.
Update Jack T. Chick, passed away on
October 23, 2016 at the age of 92, pictures of him were shown on the Chick.com website after his death, he looked Italian
see also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick