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== Lisa ==
 
== Lisa ==
  
Jack Chick's most notorious tract is ''Lisa'', distributed in the mid-1990s. It is now unavailable in print and isn't on chick.com either, for some reason. However, the [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/ Scans Daily] Livejournal community [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5556735.html found a set of scans]. You have to read this thing to believe it. Remember: raping your children is fine as long as you accept Jesus as your personal saviour! And it only takes 10 minutes!
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Jack Chick's sickest tract is arguably ''Lisa'', distributed in the mid-1990s. It is now unavailable in print and isn't on chick.com either, for some reason. However, the [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/ Scans Daily] Livejournal community [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5556735.html found a set of scans]. You have to read this thing to believe it. Remember: raping your children is fine as long as you accept Jesus as your personal saviour! And it only takes 10 minutes!
  
 
==His Prime Targets==
 
==His Prime Targets==

Revision as of 13:36, 26 May 2008

This panel from a Chick Tract makes even less sense in context.
(It really does, I checked!)

Jack Chick is an American Christian fundamentalist tract creator. His works cover various aspects of the Christian faith, including the principles of tolerance and love as well as the Catholics' satanist conspiracy to overthrow God's reign on earth or something.[1] His claims about the Jesuits, for instance, include that they were responsible for the creation of the Qur'an, that they controlled the Gestapo and were responsible for the holocaust, and that all this is being deliberately withheld from the American people because of the influence of the Catholic Church on the media.

Contents

Chick Publications

Chick publishes smaller tracts in comic book style, and full size comic books. Most of his full size comic books are part of the "Crusader" series. The smaller tracts are sold cheaply in bulk for you to leave everywhere you go in phone booths, tables, laundromats, school lockers, car windshields, etc., which is also known as littering or spam. The all time best seller of these is "This Was Your Life", in which an upscale man of about mid-1960s vintage who looks like he is the epitome of Playboy Magazine's target audience dies and finds his entire life played back to him on judgment day. Adultery! Fornication! Foul language! Drinking! Disbelief in Jesus! God then casts this sinner into the Lake of Fire.

The larger "Crusader" comics featured a heavy dose of sensationalist Satanic Panic and demonic possession themes for the first 10 or so issues, and then around 1980 Chick discovered King James Only and anti-Catholicism and published several more Crusader comics blaming the Catholic Church for everything from the Nazis and Communists to Satanism and human sacrifice to the American Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whatever.

Chick writes all of his tracts, although some draw heavily from other like-minded sources. Some, particularly the older tracts, were drawn by him, but many have been drawn by others. Fred Carter is the usual other artist - you can spot Carter's work by the realism in contrast to Chick's cartoony style, and by the blatant homo-erotica in just about every one of Carter's tracts.

Jack Chick likes to portray sinners as very hairy, smelly, and repulsive. This one looks like it was probably drawn by Fred Carter.

Synopsis

Most of his work follows a standard formula generally involving a highly caricatured straw man version of an evolutionist, homosexual or some other "sinner", often with "stereotypically Jewish" features, who then gets pwnd by a clean-cut white kid who just fell out of pretty much any 50's sitcom. The sinner then either repents, generally losing whatever worldly position they had as a result, or fails to and ends up in the Lake of Fire, while the little WASP kid goes on to eternal salvation. Occasionally he presents a "historical" tract, but the aforementioned characters are still often used to introduce the story/rant.

The dialogue in his tracts often lapses into incoherent attempts at using street slang or sounding hip: "Adam blew it! Temptation came and we all went down the tubes."[2] "The environment will go crazy."[3] "Talk about dumb. That was it!" [4].

Additionally, Chick puts heavy emphasis on the importance of accepting the holy spirit in contrast to worldly actions such as charity, benevolence and hospitality, usually resulting in situations where the most noble and honorable fellows end up being flung to hell for eternity, while murderers, rapists and other convicts are rewarded with entry to heaven[5], or are miraculously allowed to live.[6]

He also feels aroused by bodies being thrown to lakes of fire by angels.

Oh, and the incredibly incoherent and paranoid "The Last Generation" features black helicopters, free drugs, torture, implanted microchips, a New Age teacher coming to public school dressed in something that looks like a cross between a wetsuit and a KKK uniform, a Soylent Green-like food supply scenario, and more! Not to be missed! Even for Jack Chick, this one is waaaay out there.

Lisa

Jack Chick's sickest tract is arguably Lisa, distributed in the mid-1990s. It is now unavailable in print and isn't on chick.com either, for some reason. However, the Scans Daily Livejournal community found a set of scans. You have to read this thing to believe it. Remember: raping your children is fine as long as you accept Jesus as your personal saviour! And it only takes 10 minutes!

His Prime Targets

Conspicuously missing from that list

  • Scientology. One would think he would have done an anti-Scientology tract by now, but surprise!, he has not. Oh well, it's probably a good thing, since he would most likely claim Scientology like everything else is an invention of the Roman Catholic Church. Still, it's quite odd he hasn't touched that subject at all.

Questionable source material

Jack Chick is notorious for using questionable "testimonies" as source material, and continues to publish his tracts and comics based on their fraudulent testimonies long after these people have been exposed as frauds:

Books and tapes

Jack Chick also publishes a bunch of books, some of them written by himself and some of them by other authors. He reprinted a bunch of old out of print anti-Catholic books by Avro Manhattan and Charles Chiniquy, two books allegedly about "Satanism" by Rebecca Brown, and is the main publisher of fringe anti-rock & roll crusader Jeff Godwin, who is so extreme he even thinks Christian rock is Satanic.

Chick's self-authored books include: The Next Step: For Growing Christians, The Last Call: A Revival Handbook, the anti-Catholic rant Smokescreens, and the long out of print collector's item A Solution To...The Marriage Mess. All the books by Chick are in the same cartoon style as his tracts and comic books.

He also released a few cassette tapes. One of them was "Let's Take A Stand", where you get to hear Jack Chick's actual voice rambling on about the "whore of Babylon". The other was "Closet Witches", featuring Rebecca Brown and "Elaine" exposing the witchcraft conspiracy to infiltrate your local First Baptist Church, and what good Christians can do to spot and root out these dangerous infiltrators.

Links

In this excellent video adaptation of a Chick tract, Jack T. Chick shows how you can be set free from homosexuality if you confess, with your mouth, the Lord Jesus.

References

  1. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5025/5025_01.asp
  2. http://www.chick.com/catalog/comics/0109.asp
  3. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0050/0050_01.asp
  4. "That Old Devil", 1989, out of print
  5. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0041/0041_01.asp
  6. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0044/0044_01.asp
  7. Pretty much every tract you can get your hands on.
  8. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp
  9. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp
  10. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1009/1009_01.asp
  11. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp
  12. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5017/5017_01.asp
  13. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0064/0064_01.asp
  14. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp
  15. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0034/0034_01.asp
  16. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0058/0058_01.asp
  17. 17.0 17.1 http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
  18. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1033/1033_01.asp
  19. Any of his tracts
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