Ask, and ye shall receive.
Posted on 04/09/2007 11:47:13 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
| Cartoonist Johnny Hart, who won awards and acclaim for creating the BC comic strip, has died at the age of 76.
BC, which depicts a world populated by cavemen and dinosaurs, first appeared in 1958 and eventually reached more than 100 million people.
Mr Hart also co-created The Wizard of Id, the story of a run-down kingdom ruled by a tyrannical monarch.
Mr Hart's wife, Bobby, said he died of a stroke on Saturday while working at his New York home.
"He died at his storyboard," she told the Associated Press. Richard Newcombe, the founder and president of Creators Syndicate, which syndicates both BC and The Wizard of Id, said both cartoons would continue.
Family members have been helping produce the strips for years, and they have an extensive computer archive of drawings to work with, he told AP.
Mr Hart won numerous awards for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society's prestigious Reuben Award twice for Cartoonist of the Year. In his later year, Mr Hart's Christianity began to play a more prominent role in his cartoons, courting some controversy. |
And his I - SLAM cartoon ... I’m sure some Freeper can dig it up
I want to die peacefully and in my sleep like my grandfather; not screaming and full of fear like the three guys who were passengers in his car at the time.
Nelson Rockefeller comes to mind.
...’In his later year, Mr Hart’s Christianity began to play a more prominent role in his cartoons, courting some controversy’.....And what was the point of including that statement in the article?
Finding religion is controversial?...L.O.L.
I have a sneaking feeeling that he has been greeted by choirs of angels. He bore witness to his Lord and I love him for it.
Requiscat in pace, Johnny.
Didn’t he do one about the group that decides whether Jesus really said or did certain things in the bible by casting colored stones into a hat? As I recall they were standing in front of God on judgemnent day and said they had voted that “He didn’t really excist.”
Because it is factually true.
His 'menorah to cross' strip, for example, was extremely controversial
R.I.P.
How beautiful. Thank you for posting that!
At least the BBC viewership seems to have heard of Hart; it’s currently the second most popular article read on the site, second only to Iran’s producing nuclear fuel at an industrial level.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
yes, and rolling it into little balls
Hart got wings!
Charles Schulz died the evening before his last strip was published.
Elvis’ last words............”Corn? I don’t remember corn..........”
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