Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Meet Jack Chick

This is a drawing of Jack Chick, the guy who gave you nightmares as a child afraid your parents were going to die in a car wreck and be tormented because you knew they drank, vague fears of dying and having devils poking you in the butt with pitchforks if you smoked cigarettes or listened to rock music. He could also make you look at your Catholic friends in pity and swallow hard expecting fire and brimstone to come raining down when a science teacher said the word evolution.

A drawing of him is necessary as representation as there are no known photographs.

He last gave an interview in 1975

It's even been widely speculated he wasn't real or that he has died.

Chick Publications report dispensing 750 million tracts.

His tracts have been translated into 100 languages

Two particular tracts were banned in the 80s in Canada and all were banned in Apartheid era South Africa

Jack Chick served with the US Army during WWII in the Pacific theater.

Now, you know more than you ever thought you would about Jack Chick.

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