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Meet Jack Chick
Recently Chick has ventured out of the world of comic book publishing to produce a feature-length movie entitled The Light of the World. I received an unexpected invitation to the premier of the movie. Writing movie reviews is a hobby of mine, and the camp value alone of a Chick film would make it worth reviewing, so I made the trek to the premier—and got more than I imagined I would.
The Light of the World premiered in Ontario, California, where Chick Publications is based. The site was an old auditorium that would have been dazzling in the 1940s and that still boasted an impressive main theater. As I approached it an hour before the screening was scheduled to begin, a small group of people, including a number of elderly men, was out front.
Could one of these men be Jack Chick? I wondered, then answered my own question: probably not. No doubt he’d seen the completed film, and with his reclusive tendencies he wasn’t likely to show up.
Still, I kept an eye out, particularly for an elderly man with a young Asian woman. (After the death of his wife a few yea
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Jack Chick
American cartoonist (1924–2016)
Jack Chick | |
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| Born | Jack Thomas Chick (1924-04-13)April 13, 1924 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 23, 2016(2016-10-23) (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[2] |
| Children | 1 |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service / branch | U.S. Army |
| Rank | Private |
| Battles / wars | World War II |
| Website | chick.com |
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-artmorality plays.
Many of his tracts accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies.[3] His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles Our beloved brother, Jack Chick, is now with the Lord. He was 92. From early childhood, it was obvious that Jack Chick had an ability to draw. He even failed the first grade because he was so busy drawing airplanes in battle. As he grew, Jack was constantly drawing, and honing skills that God would later use in a great way. While in high school, none of the Christians would have anything to do with him because of his bad language. They all agreed not to witness to him, convinced that he was the last guy on earth who would ever accept Jesus Christ. After graduation from High School, Jack won a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse to study acting, but his studies were interrupted by the military. He spent the next three years in the Army, which took him to foreign countries like New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines and Japan. After being discharged from the service, Jack returned to the Playhouse, where he
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