Jack Chick, the producer and publisher of those annoying cartoon tracts that evangelicals love to jam into people’s hands, has died. He was 92.
Jack T. Chick, whose cartoon tracts preached fundamentalist Christianity while vilifying secular society, evolution, homosexuality and the beliefs of Catholics and Muslims, has died. He was 92.
Chick died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday evening, according to a Facebook posting Monday by Chick Publications, based in Rancho Cucamonga. It did not provide other details, and a call for comment left after hours was not immediately returned.
An example of a typical tract page, below.
Jack Chick’s tracts were the exemplar for the ignorance and bigotry that decent, educated people find repellent in Christian thought. He condemned Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, LGBTQ, science — anything and everything that didn’t comport with his childish theology. As eagerly as evangelicals pass them out, however, he must have earned million$. In spite of all that money, though, Chick lived a valueless life devoted to the degradation of others, and we are well rid of him. As Clarence Darrow once said, “I have never killed a man, but I have read a great many obituaries with pleasure.”