I think particularly in the world of underground comics, I think he was the ultimate outsider. (Daniel Raeburn) CO: Now that he has died, what would you say is his legacy? DR: I think he did influence our culture. But the reason I've spent so much time studying his comics is because I think hate literature exposes something about the culture that produces it.Ī page from Daniel Raeburn's "The Imp, Number Two: The Holy War of Jack T Chick," which profiles the work of the controversial evangelical cartoonist Jack Chick. Along the way, he just attacked everyone. He was very against church. He was a Bible believing Christian, which means, "I don't even believe in church." In the same way that the Christian religion did have roots in a sort of rebel subculture, he saw himself as someone trying to encourage people to return to those roots. Every major religion, including Christianity and Christian churches. Jack Chick targeted and defended just about every group on Earth. CO: They've been described as hate literature - who did he target with these comics? DR: Everybody. So even though they are ostensibly a message of hope and salvation, they are really horror comics designed to scare children and they work. He would take on the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Halloween, the game Dungeons and Dragons - anything that kids were into he would point out was the work of the devil and your only hope was to accept Jesus. Particularly the older Jack Chick got, the more overtly he targeted kids with his comics. They are designed to scare you into accepting Jesus as your own personal saviour and they are definitely aimed at kids. ![]() (Daniel Raeburn) CO: So what effect would the comics have on kids? DR: A big effect. ![]() With his series "The Imp" writer Daniel Raeburn profiles underground cartoonists, including what he calls the "whacked-out yet mainstream belief system" of Jack Chick.
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