{"id":22413,"date":"2016-10-24T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22413"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:45:23","slug":"jack-chick-creator-of-unintentionally-ludicrous-evangelical-comics-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22413","title":{"rendered":"Jack Chick, Creator of Unintentionally Ludicrous Evangelical Comics, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts-590x813.jpg\" alt=\"jtc-tracts\" width=\"590\" height=\"813\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts-590x813.jpg 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts-300x413.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts-768x1058.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts-940x1295.jpg 940w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/JTC-tracts.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Chick, arguably one of the most widely-read cartoonists in the world, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2016\/10\/24\/chick-tract-publisher-jack-chick-dies-at-92\/\">has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was in his nineties.  If you&#8217;re not familiar with Chick Comics (those tiny little comics fundamentalist preachers give out on street corners), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick.com\/reading\/tracts\/0034\/0034_01.asp\">here&#8217;s a fairly typical example<\/a>, giving Jack&#8217;s view on rock music. And of course, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chick.com\/reading\/tracts\/0046\/0046_01.asp\">comic about Dungeons and Dragons<\/a> is a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this Marvel-comics-inspired parody of Chick comics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edcontradictory.com\/comic\/galactus-is-coming\/\">GALACTUS IS COMING!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Chick, arguably one of the most widely-read cartoonists in the world, has died. He was in his nineties. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Chick Comics (those tiny little comics fundamentalist preachers give out on street corners), here&#8217;s a fairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,216,102,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-comics-other-than-hereville","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22417,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions\/22417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}