Jack Chick
Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.
Jack Chick | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jack Thomas Chick April 13, 1924 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 23, 2016 (aged 92) Alhambra, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Publisher, comic book creator, writer, evangelist |
| Known for | Chick tracts |
| Spouse(s) |
Lola Lynn Priddle
(m. 1948; died 1998)Susie a.k.a. Susy Chick |
| Children | 1 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service/ | U.S. Army |
| Rank | Private |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Website | chick |
Many of his tracts accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".
Chick's views have been spread mostly through the tracts and, more recently, online. His company, Chick Publications, says it has sold over 750 million tracts, comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective. They have been translated into more than 100 languages.
Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a dispensationalist view of the End Times. He was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality.