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Johnny Hart Dies (B.C. Comic Strip Creator)

The greater part of me is sad, of course. A lesser part of me is saying, "at least the preachy so-and-so will shut up now."

The cynical whole read what you wrote and said, "Nah. He really won't."
 
Assuming he died on the 8th (the article was posted on the 9th at 5 in the morning), this was the comic ran on the day he died.

I hope he found the answers he was looking for and that he isn't too disappointed.
 
Even his death won't prevent his crappy religious comics from being published?

To quote from a much better comic strip artist's signature character, "Argh!"
 
Björn Toulouse said:
Zot !!

Brings back old memories of a great humor.
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Yes, many years ago, BC was funny. The characters were well-developed and the running jokes (like the anteater tongue) were really appealing to the younger set. It's been about fifteen years since he was funny, but I too remember laughing out loud at his jokes. Of course, a lot of that was my juvenile sense of humor. I really thought it was funny that his main female characters were never named, just called "The Cute Chick" and "The Fat Broad".
 
Upchurch said:
Assuming he died on the 8th (the article was posted on the 9th at 5 in the morning), this was the comic ran on the day he died.

I hope he found the answers he was looking for and that he isn't too disappointed.
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LibraryLady said:
He died on the 7th, sorry.
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Yeah, but the comics are written at least a week in advance, so in a few days, we should see his "last strip".
 
Upchurch said:
Assuming he died on the 8th (the article was posted on the 9th at 5 in the morning), this was the comic ran on the day he died.
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Good Lord, that's dumb -- and incomprehensible -- with a little numerology mixed in. Newsapapers actually run this junk?
 
Upchurch said:
Oh. Well, this lacks the same semi-irony that the comic on the 8th had.
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Oh, I beg to differ. This is the work of a fully mature Hart. All of his incisive social commentary and his eye for the absurdity of the human condition condensed into a few, crisp, comedic panels. Stunning in their spareness, moving in the beauty of their execution. You actually feel like you are in that stone-age cafe. You understand the insult, because we are all daily assulted by insults blithly tossed our way from short-order-cooks, cabbies, airline ticket agents, U.S. Senators and Nobel Prize winners. Simply put, it is a stunning piece of modern art which connects our current human condition to that of our long-past Stone Age brothers and sisters.

Fantastic. In its way, it approaches the masterful Ernie Bushmuller’s Nancy in its profound, deep and ultimately bleak explication of life and human relationships. Bravo, Johnny Hart. I say: Hail and farewell!
 
I can't really be happy that someone has died, but I can be happy that there's a chance I won't have to read BC again.
 
Do a reverse search back up the page for "uh-oh", aptly labeled.
 
I heard a rumor that Jack Chick would be taking over the strip.
 
Kopji said:
I heard a rumor that Jack Chick would be taking over the strip.
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Funny as anything.

I would like to say, that I hated Hart with a passion, I constantly was left offended or just assamed to have read his commics. But its sad he died. I just wish he would have retired from BC and the Wizard of ID (he co-wrote that crap-fest of reiterated jokes from the 50s).

BC was once funny, but now its preachy and biggoted, I hope it stops, but am sad he did.

(I notice this now, that his comic was titled BC (ignoreing the irony of then Christian cavepeople), that's really an outdated term, it should be BCE, but I guess that would remove Christ as the referenc for everything else on earth.

Here's a link to a discussion.
 
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