July 21, 2004

garbanzo journalism

Jack Chick’s minions were passing out his post-psychedelic tracts the other day in my neighborhood. Evidentally they think I’m Catholic because my surname ends in a vowel. Oh, well. Anyway, the sad tale of Murphy the Irish cop who dies before he can finish his sprinkled doughnut gave me pause to laugh. Then I did what anybody else would do in my situation: go online and google the bejesus out of Jack Chick Productions. The best are here:

  • Saturnalia is a parody, I think, of Chick done from a pagan’s POV.
  • Andrew Hultkrans has written a nice exposé on Chick.
  • The Masons have a bone to pick with Jack.
  • Who’d’ve thought that he’d branch out into movies? Can video games be far off?
  • Shame on you, Jack.
  • Taking no flak, four easy to follow steps.
  • What happened to turn the other cheek? Another parody gone.
  • More parodies in paradise

[Addendum 07/29/04: Thanks to Dave Trowbridge over at Redwood Dragon, here’s a link to the cached Cthulu Chick parody.]

Posted by jim at July 21, 2004 10:52 AM
Comments

When I flew to Tokyo en route to Thailand last year on Northwest, someone put a bunch of Chick tracts in the lavatories. Most of them were in Japanese, although you pretty much could get the gist of what was going on.

I took one to show to my friends, and when I later went back to the bathroom, someone had put a fresh stack of tracts on the counter.

Most of the comics had the "happy ending" where the evil nasties kill the hero after being saved, but he gets to go to heaven and leave the filthy, filthy world behind.

I particularly liked the imagery of the, I guess, Armageddon episode, replete with gigantic lambs with wings containing dozens of creepy eyes. Clearly the work of the semi-disturbed.

Posted by: Ian Evans on July 22, 2004 09:44 AM

The wonderful Cthulthu parody tract is still available from numerous sites, such as http://www.geocities.com/tribhis/cthulhutract.html.

It will never die! Bwaahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Dave Trowbridge on July 28, 2004 05:01 PM
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