JACK THOMAS CHICK
This thread is about one of the most repugnant human beings alive, Jack T. Chick. If you live in the English speaking world, you've probably come across one of
these pieces of shit. Little black and white "Chick Tracts" that evangelists buy in bulk and either hand out or leave in public spaces for free. They're designed to lead you to Jack Chick's very specific version of Christianity, where if you aren't a born-again Biblical Literalist King James Only Protestant, you are going straight to hell.
"How does this make him a lolcow?" I hear you say. Well,
just take a really close look at these fucking comics. Actually read a few, and you'll agree with me, the man is an insane lolcow. Why? Well, there are a few common themes in his artwork, which suggest that he's not such a good Christian after all. Let's take a look at some of them:
- Fuck Catholics! Catholics are Jack Chick's favorite bogeyman. Even though his assortment of anti-Catholic tracts isn't THAT disproportionate to the tracts where he shits on other religions, Catholicism seems to be his favorite bogeyman, since it makes it into a lot of unrelated comics, like this one.
- Jack Chick also publishes the stories of Alberto Rivera, a man who claims to be an ex Jesuit who was forced to infiltrate and destroy protestant institutions before conveniently deciding that Jack Chick's version of Christianity was correct. Rivera's fabricated exploits are the subject of a number of full length and full color comics by Chick Comics. Christianity Today (an Evangelical magazine) claims that this is false.
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- Racism! Read this book description, And learn why we need to be worried about "white witchcraft". But even worse, Jack Chick thinks that blacks are dumb, and need special comics to pander to their level of understanding. This is called the "Black Tracts" series. Worst of all, most of these tracts are categorized as part of the "Basic Gospel" subject on his website. Because those poor blacks can't understand anything else.
- Bad Art! The art that Jack Chick himself draws is quite bad. Most of the "good" art that you've seen is the art of the uncredited Fred Carter, who Chick probably doesn't think deserves recognition because he's black.
- Gay Subtext! These tracts and images speak for themselves.
I should note that for most of these examples, I didn't even seek out the most heinous cases, I simply found them while going through the Black Tracts series. There are undoubtedly way worse ones out there.
Oh, and as a final aside, Jack Chick's little tracts bear more than a passing resemblance to
Tijuana bibles. Given his extreme age (91), he's probably quite familiar with them, and his art style suggests that he's
quite familiar indeed.
The best place for more Jack Chick hilarity is on his own website,
http://www.chick.com/
