1. Jack Thomas Chick was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian "Chick tracts".
28 Facts About Jack Chick
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Jack Chick expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays.
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Jack Chick's comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".
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Jack Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a dispensationalist view of the End Times.
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Jack Chick was a believer in the King James Only movement, which posits that every English translation of the Bible other than the King James version is flawed and contains some inaccuracies compared to the original text.
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Jack Chick was born in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, and later moved with his family to Alhambra.
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In February 1943, during World War II, Jack Chick was drafted as a private into the US Army.
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Jack Chick served for three years in the Pacific theater, serving in New Guinea, Australia, the Philippines, and Japan working in cryptography.
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Jack Chick credited his time overseas for inspiring him to translate his tracts into many different languages and said that he had "a special burden for missions and missionaries".
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Lola Lynn Priddle, a Canadian immigrant, came from a very religious family, and Jack Chick said that she was "instrumental in his salvation".
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The widower Jack Chick remarried to an Asian woman whose name has been variously reported as Susie and Susy.
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Jack Chick had limited personal contact with the public; he gave only one known professional interview after 1975.
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Jack Chick's body was discovered on the evening of October 23,2016, in his home at Alhambra, California.
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Jack Chick heard from missionary Bob Hammond, who had broadcast in Asia on the Voice of America, that the Chinese Communist Party had gained significant influence among ordinary Chinese in the 1950s through the distribution of small comic books.
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Jack Chick began working with a prison ministry and created a flip chart of illustrations to use with his presentation.
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Jack Chick hit upon the idea of creating witnessing tracts, which could be given to people directly or indirectly.
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Jack Chick paid for it with a loan from his credit union.
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Jack Chick published his second tract, A Demon's Nightmare, in 1962.
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Jack Chick decided to create more tracts and began "using his kitchen table as an office and art studio".
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Jack Chick officially established Chick Publications in 1970 in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
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Carter painted the oil paintings seen in The Light of the World, a film Jack Chick produced that related the Christian gospel.
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Jack Chick Publications released at least 23 full-size "Jack Chick comics" since its founding.
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Several of Jack Chick's tracts have been translated into less widely-spoken languages as Blue Hmong, Huichol, Ngiemboon, Tshiluba, and the constructed language of Esperanto.
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Jack Chick is known for his conspiratorial views and his belief that secret groups, such as the Illuminati, exert influence on the world to advance evil.
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In "The Broken Cross," Jack Chick introduces John Todd, a former grand druid priest who claims that secret groups, including witches and the Illuminati, are working to advance evil.
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Jack Chick sees Satan as the one behind all major events, including biblical occurrences like Adam and Eve and the Great Flood, as part of his ongoing battle for control.
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Jack Chick responded to these accusations by saying that he was opposed to the Roman Catholic Church as a sociopolitical organization, but not to its individual members.
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On his "Roman Catholicism FAQ", Jack Chick said he began publishing his theories about the Roman Catholic Church because "he loves Catholics and wants them to be saved through faith in Jesus".