John Lewis Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strips BC and The Wizard of Id.
12 Facts About Johnny Hart
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Johnny Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society.
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Johnny Hart's pre-cartooning employment included working in a barbecue restaurant and sign painting.
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Johnny Hart co-created and wrote the comic strip The Wizard of Id, drawn by Brant Parker, which has been distributed since November 9,1964.
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Johnny Hart was raised in a casually religious family, and he attended Christian Sunday School regularly.
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Johnny Hart attributed his religious awakening to a father-son team of contractors who installed a satellite dish at his home.
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Critics including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee argued that Johnny Hart's strip portrayed replacement theology, that is, the conception of Christianity as supplanting Judaism.
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Johnny Hart offered an apology "if I have offended any readers," but still thought the strip could increase "religious awareness" and claimed that he had meant the strip to be a tribute to both religions.
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Johnny Hart denied that it was anything but an outhouse joke.
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Additionally, Johnny Hart contributed original panels of BC strips for charity auctions with the Binghamton, New York-based PBS affiliate, WSKG-TV.
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Johnny Hart provided album cover art for the 1999 album Still Fresh by the world-famous jazz vocal group The Four Freshmen, and his strips for BC were the inspiration for the mascot of UC Irvine, the anteater.
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Johnny Hart won numerous awards for his work, including the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben award for BC in 1968 and Wizard of Id in 1984.