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Yep, at the Fucking Whitney, Fuck Yeah! and thank you MB for coming to the opening and big love to Jim and Bree,
it was so wonderful to see you there, Digital Media Tree played a huge part in making me a net artist.
Jack Chick RIP
(this is a repost from 2008)
From TO HELL WITH YOU
For the past five decades Jack T Chick has been writing comics about damnation. In
the pocket-sized tracts, people are stabbed, burned alive, and eaten by snakes. There
is cannibalism and human sacrifice. The apocalyptic works are equal parts hate
literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonising, with a tough-guy Christ - "Jesus is not a
weak fairy," he writes - as protagonist. Chick, a fundamentalist Christian and president
of a California-based publishing company, wants his books to scare the hell out of you.
The publishing house that Jack Chick built still exists. (the next question would be why I am so surprised that it does
(Hey Anthony! shout-out.)
And my personal favourite: Are Roman Catholics Christians?
Here's a Chick parody site and there's an on-line Jack Chick Museum.
Lauren Pelc McArthur
Jesse MacCormack - The Work of Gifs in the Age of Digital Reproduction
