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BOOKS Chick Publications has published quite a few books by who's who of crackpot authors over the past half-century. I'll focus on those that were authored and/or illustrated by Jack Chick, and mentions a handful of others if I have time. The Last Call (1963)  This is one of the earliest efforts by Jack Chick, and his first book. The text is taken from the sermons of a preacher named Charles G. Finney, whose message had an obvious influence on Chick's beliefs. It was originally released in a landscape format, but was revised and re-released in a standard form in 1978. Beyond being reformatted to fit the new shape, the material is essentially unchanged.  The Last Call received a new cover and some changes to the font in 2012, but otherwise remains pretty much the same. It is still in print.  Here are a few representative pictures. They are from the original version.                  I wrote about The Last Call here: Gutter Phoenix posted:The Last Call (1963). This is a transitional point for Jack Chick, as it's more of a text-heavy book than a comic style tract. Although it's essentially the same size as the large versions of Why No Revival? and A Demon's Nightmare, the page length is doubled.
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The Battle (1972) I wrote about The Battle here: Gutter Phoenix posted:The Battle (1972). The Next Step for Growing Christians (1973) I wrote about The Next Step here: Gutter Phoenix posted:The Next Step for Growing Christians (1973)
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A Solution to... The Marriage Mess (1978) Upon returning from Africa, Christian missionary Mark visits his sister pat, her husband Frank, and their three kids. While there, he uses his Christian wisdom to solve all of their family problems and reaffirm their faith in Christ. Written by Chick, this wonderful book consists of 224 pages of single panel illustrations by Fred Carter. The art is great, and Chick's marriage advice is hilarious. If you're in the mood for a quick and funny read, I highly recommend tracking down a copy of this book. Some highlights:                 This is one of Chick's more interesting viewpoints:     A Solution to... The Marriage Mess is out of print, but you can still read it on the Chick Publications website: http://www.chick.com/reading/books/150/150cont.asp
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Going Bananas? (1979) This book is similar in format to A Solution to... The Marriage Mess, 244 pages of single panel illustrations by Fred Carter. It tells the story of a woman named Janet who has a full-blown mental breakdown after her husband's terrible family comes to stay with them. Janet regains her sanity after reaffirming her faith in Christ and giving her ungrateful heathen house guests the boot.      Going Bananas? is out of print, and isn't listed on the Chick Publications website.
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Gutter Phoenix posted:A Solution to... The Marriage Mess (1978) When I got married, I didn't stop wearing deodorant and brushing my teeth! I didn't know it was an option! This is good stuff! How did Ben get fifty pounds of weed? This is some great advice for women with abusive husbands. Also, just cause something is legal means you must do it. Message received!
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How many dicks do you think Jack Chick sucked before he died?
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ElGroucho posted:How many dicks do you think Jack Chick sucked before he died? Well, sucking dicks is legal. The Supreme Court said so. So I am going to say all of them.
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Mar 27, 2017 21:03
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 Powerful lunch action here
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Also this dude loves to make people ugly as gently caress
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Holy poo poo, Jack Chick's tips on loving!
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SniperWoreConverse posted:
yeah some evangelicals are weird(in a good way like that) like the puritans as backwards and dickish as they were legit believed in mutually pleasurable sex, they believe the only way a baby could be conceivef was if your wife orgasmed during procration.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah some evangelicals are weird(in a good way like that) like the puritans as backwards and dickish as they were legit believed in mutually pleasurable sex, they believe the only way a baby could be conceivef was if your wife orgasmed during procration. 
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Mar 28, 2017 11:40
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Somebody was using their school age children to pass out Chick tracts in Atlanta, in Woodruff Park yesterday. gently caress their shot at a proper education. They're getting homeschooled to the tune of having their innocence manipulated to spread fanaticism.
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Actually if you read the tract you'd know that they're not "fanatics" and want to help you
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah some evangelicals are weird(in a good way like that) like the puritans as backwards and dickish as they were legit believed in mutually pleasurable sex, they believe the only way a baby could be conceivef was if your wife orgasmed during procration. Yes and no. They're the same evangelicals that tell the wife to kowtow, hold her tongue and obey the husband as head of the household, even if her husband is being abusive, cheating, making terrible decisions, etc. By demonstrating a meek and subservient Christ-like spirit, the man will be chastened by his wife's enduring servitude and totally not treat her like a piece of trash. Now, this may have been ok advice in a communal church setting where everyone lived with and intimately knew one another, and if the husband's behavior continued it was supposed to be brought before his peers, then the church elders, then the entire community and then end with expulsion from the community if the behavior continued. The modern evangelical equivalent is almost always, "suck it up, buttercup. Be glad God has given you a chance to demonstrate grace."
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Pvt.Scott posted:Yes and no. They're the same evangelicals that tell the wife to kowtow, hold her tongue and obey the husband as head of the household, even if her husband is being abusive, cheating, making terrible decisions, etc. By demonstrating a meek and subservient Christ-like spirit, the man will be chastened by his wife's enduring servitude and totally not treat her like a piece of trash. Woah, woah, woah. You don't have to demonstrate grace. That's something a papist does.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Woah, woah, woah. You don't have to demonstrate grace. That's something a papist does. Haha, so true. Regardless, by suffering AND not complaining about it AND forgiving the guilty party AND forgetting the offense ever happened, one can emulate, albeit poorly, the grace of God. If an abused Christian woman doesn't do all of these things, she's just a big phony who deserves it, frankly.
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Smokescreens (1982 audio tape/ 1983 book) Smokescreens started out as an audio tape of Jack Chick reading a scripted version of his whole Roman-Catholic-Church-is-the-Biblical-Whore-of-Babylon spiel. You can listen to the actual voice of Jack Chick denouncing Catholicism here: https://archive.org/details/SmokescreensByJackTChickOnAudio Chick used the script as the basis of a 93-page book published the same year:   Above: original version of book from 1983.  Above: more recent version of the book. There are a lot of photos in the book, but this is the only real Chick cartoon:  The text is essentially a detailed explanation of Jack's anti-Catholic conspiracy theories. I don't find it anywhere near as entertaining as his multiple tracts on the same subject, but I suppose it's nice to have all of his beliefs on the topic written out in one handy volume. The audio cassette is out of print, and no longer available from Chick Publications. The book has been in print since 1983 and although the cover was changed at some point, the text has remained the same. You can read Smokescreens here: http://www.chick.com/reading/books/153/153cont.asp
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Closet Witches audio cassettes (1986)   As far as I know, this and Smokescreens (see above) are the only audio recordings that Chick Publications ever sold. I wrote about Closet Witches and the craziness surrounding Rebecca Brown when I posted about the three mid-80's tracts that were heavily influenced by her delusions: Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #76 - Satan's Master (1986) Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #77 - The Trick (1986) Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #86 - The Poor Little Witch (1987) Closet Witches is out of print. Rebecca Brown also wrote two books for Chick Publications, both sporting cover paintings by Fred Carter and interior cartoons by Jack Chick. I'll post about those next.
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He Came to Set the Captives Free by Rebecca Brown (1986)  This is the first of two books Chick published during the mid-80's authored by witchcraft expert/ notable crackpot Rebecca Brown. Fred Carter painted the cover, and Jack Chick drew the handful of illustrations contained within its 288 pages.    Chick gave the rights to both books back to Brown a few years later, and it has been reprinted by evangelical Christian publisher Whitaker House since 1992. I'm not sure if Chick's cartoons are included in the current versions, but both books still have Fred Carter's cover art. Prepare for War by Rebecca Brown (1987)   This 336-page sequel to He Came to Set the Captives Free has a cover painting by Fred Carter. Chick illustrated one chapter, and provided a couple of additional cartoons sprinkled elsewhere in the book.           I think Fred Carter may have drawn this one using Chick's style, but I might be wrong.  Like it's predecessor, the current version published by Whitaker House retains Fred Carter's cover art, but I don't know if it contains Chick's cartoons.
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Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible? by David Daniels (2005) Above: 2005 original.  Above: 2013 revision. David Daniels is Jack Chick's chosen successor, and co-author of many of the tracts and comics published over the past sixteen or seventeen years. This book explains that the Vatican (under direct orders from the Dark Lord Satan) has tried to mutilate the Bible ever since it was first written. The material is very much in Jack Chick's wheelhouse.  The book is heavily illustrated, but the cartoons are simple and lackluster. It was revised in 2013 with Deborah Daniels credited as an additional illustrator. I only have the newer version, so I'm not sure how much content she added. In any case, most of the drawings lack Chick's signature style, and I couldn't find anything noteworthy enough to post here. This is not Chick's best work. You can see an excerpt from the original version here: https://www.chick.com/catalog/books/excerpts/1252_ex.asp You can read about the 2013 revision here: http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/1252.asp Babylon Religion by David Daniels (2006)  Unlike their previous collaboration, the artwork in this book is classic Chick. And the Biblical conspiracy theories put forth by David Daniels are a perfect fit to Chick's views. He is a worthy successor to Jack.          Holiest of Holies, indeed!       Babylon Religion is still in print, and well worth reading. http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/0187.asp Hot Topics (2008) This is a compilation of six Chick tracts in book form. I wrote about it here: Gutter Phoenix posted:
Sadly, I think this is the last of the books authored by and/ or illustrated by Chick, although he probably provided drawings for some of the other Chick Publications titles. They've published a lot of books over the years, many of which are out of print and tough to find. I've only read a portion of their zany library. There is still a bunch of Chick stuff I plan to post when I get a chance, most notably the Overcomers comic series, and selected hilarity from old catalogs, advertisements, and the Chick Publications newsletter, Battle Cry. Also, at least one new tract is due to be released on May Day: 
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So if Rebecca Brown used her position as a Sunday school teacher to bind children to Satan's power, she surely has a detailed volume documenting her exhaustive efforts to track down and undo the harm she did to every last individual, including those who would have gone on to replicate her methods. Right?
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No, all she needs to do is accept Christ into her heart to be forgiven. You're thinking about papists again.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:No, all she needs to do is accept Christ into her heart to be forgiven. You're thinking about papists again. There's that, but I was just thinking on the purely "this poo poo never happened," level. If we take her at her word, she's either lacking in compassion to a sociopathic degree or is still an agent of Satan. You don't get to say poo poo like, "oh it was horrible y'all, I sacrificed babies to Satan with my lesbian witch sisters (I'm just guessing here). I am so glad I am right with Christ now," and get any sort of sympathy unless you turn evidence on your co-conspirators, identify the victims and accept just punishment for your crimes. I always had a skeevy feeling about these "out of the occult," people even when I was like eight or whatever. poo poo strained my credulity and seemed hosed-up even then. Like the ex-witches who told "first hand" about how they poisoned Halloween candy and poo poo. Part of me wanted to stand up and yell for someone to call the police. They might be a brother or sister in the Lord, but they are also actively confessing to premeditated crimes, right now. Then there were the "spiritual warriors." "Oh, you had a fistfight with a demon in your living room and you didn't win until you realized that you had scoped out a chick for a few seconds too long the other day? Once you asked God then-and-there for forgiveness you laid that fucker out? Cool."
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Pvt.Scott posted:There's that, but I was just thinking on the purely "this poo poo never happened," level. If we take her at her word, she's either lacking in compassion to a sociopathic degree or is still an agent of Satan. She has accepted Christ, there is nothing more that needs to be done except for her victims to forgive her. (This is the kind of thinking that led to poo poo like Lisa's Story or whatever the child molester one was.)
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Kavak posted:She has accepted Christ, there is nothing more that needs to be done except for her victims to forgive her. Yay! Dad's better! He won't gently caress me (or double-team me with the neighbor!) or beat mom any longer! I am instantly ok! Yeah, that's our Lisa, the little scamp!
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Spire christian comics found a simple way to convert people to christianity  http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/LB/0509/Gospel_Blimp_1974.pdf
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So is Nimrod the same as Gilgamesh? Losing track of Hislop's forced analogues.
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Pvt.Scott posted:There's that, but I was just thinking on the purely "this poo poo never happened," level. If we take her at her word, she's either lacking in compassion to a sociopathic degree or is still an agent of Satan. i always sorta had a feeling it was kinda of a "emperors has no clothes" type of deal. everyone knows its bullshit, but they want to look faithful and be elect and all that poo poo, so they dont call them out. the liars are either con-men, nuts or they think that lying about fighting daemons will be for the greater good and will bring people to Christ, but there are enough dumb people who legit believe it so who knows.
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Pvt.Scott posted:Yay! Dad's better! He won't gently caress me (or double-team me with the neighbor!) or beat mom any longer! I am instantly ok! except eveyone knows he will and he will just do while sing jesus name and then go back to some evangelical and beg for the blood of christ and and the cycle will repeat until lisa is a teenager and shoots him and her mother in the head, then the evanglicals will blame bullshit and whistle loudly when it comes out in court that she was molested and raped for years.
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A new tract was released on May 1st: Tract #291 - Adopted (2017)  A girl brags to her buddy Sharon about how her mom had almost aborted her, but thanks to some kindly anti-abortion activists protesting in front of the clinic, mom decided to put her up for adoption instead. Later the girl was adopted a second time by none other than God Himself! Sharon is jealous of her pal's double-dose of adoption until the girl explains that she too can be adopted by God as long as she accepts Christianity as the one true faith. Sharon can't pass up a deal like that! She immediately converts.       You can read it here: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1168/1168_01.asp  This tract is notable for being the very first Chick tract crediting David Daniels as the author. Unless I'm mistaken, it's also the first that actually gives credit to Fred Carter for the artwork. Chick purists need not despair, as there are still a number of tracts that were written and drawn by Jack Chick before he died. They will be released intermittently until the well finally runs dry at some point in 2018. I haven't had a whole lot of time to post over the past few months, but I still have a wealth of Chick material (and other related evangelical oddities) worth mentioning, so I'll try to keep adding stuff to this thread whenever I get a chance. Gutter Phoenix fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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While I'm thinking about it, I purchased a few lots of old tracts over the past few months, and added a few rare variations that I didn't have when I first posted about those titles. I doubt anyone here will care, but I've never seen most of these before, so I figured I'd mention them. First up is an oversize (4.125" x 5") version of the very first tract from 1961, Why No Revival?:  Above: original 1961 version, slightly smaller 1961 version (possibly a later reprint), standard-sized 1970 version. It's mostly the same as the slightly smaller one I posted earlier: Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #1 - Why No Revival? (1961) except that it doesn't include these two pages:   However, that is a small price to pay, because it contains this amazing picture on the last page:  The same lot that contained the copy of Why No Revival? had three different versions of He Never Told Us! (1993), none of which I'd ever seen before:  The versions with the red and yellow covers aren't too different from those I mentioned in my original post, but I had no idea that the version with the green cover even existed. Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #116 - He Never Told Us! (1993) Last, and least interesting to all but the most hard core of collectors, I picked up three standard-size tracts with early copyrights that pre-date the incorporation of Chick Publications by several years: Somebody Loves Me (1969), A Demon's Nightmare (1970), and The Assignment (1971). The content and covers for all three are essentially the same as the later versions. I only mention these because I'd never seen any of them before, and wasn't even sure they existed. Anyway, I originally posted about those tracts here: Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #2 - A Demon's Nightmare (1962) Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #5 - Somebody Loves Me (1965). Gutter Phoenix posted:Tract #22 - The Assignment (1971).
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That new post-Chick tract looks weird. It's like Fred Carter decided to adopt an anime/fetal alcohol syndrome style to drawing the kids.
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Wow, I didn't know about the books. I need to go find those for my collection of Weird Evangelical Stuff. Wow, Jack Chick missed his true calling in life: coming up with loving awesome names for punk bands. Pvt.Scott posted:Now, this may have been ok advice in a communal church setting where everyone lived with and intimately knew one another, and if the husband's behavior continued it was supposed to be brought before his peers, then the church elders, then the entire community and then end with expulsion from the community if the behavior continued. Pretty much. At my last church, this guy's wife was in the hospital dying of cancer and he started cheating on her with...her oncologist. Seriously. So once the pastor got wind of this, he was placed under church discipline and basically told to cut it the gently caress out or we'd kick him out. Whereupon he just left and started attending another church. Might have worked in the 17th century, but it doesn't really work when somebody can drive an extra five minutes on Sunday and go to a completely different congregation.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:That new post-Chick tract looks weird. It's like Fred Carter decided to adopt an anime/fetal alcohol syndrome style to drawing the kids. Yeah, Fred Carter tends to use an odd pseudo-Chick cartoon style when he draws tracts aimed at a younger audience.
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doodlebugs posted:Spire christian comics found a simple way to convert people to christianity Spire comics definitely deserve an honorable mention here. I got a whole pile of them when I bought a big lot of Chick tracts a couple of years ago. These are my favorites:        Spire comics were drawn by Al Hartley, who was also the artist for Archie comics at the time. As a result, he managed to get permission to use the Archie characters to promote the Good News.          My favorite part of this one is when Jesus invites the gang to ride around in his van so He can show them the meaning of love. Also, Liberace makes an appearance.    I really like the letters section in this one. Feel free to send some mail to Big Ethel's P.O. Box.       This isn't a Spire comic, but I thought I'd post it anyway:  
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The Phlegmatist posted:Wow, I didn't know about the books. I need to go find those for my collection of Weird Evangelical Stuff. You ought to post some. I'll be posting some crazy non-Chick tracts and pamphlets as soon as I get around to digging them out and taking pictures.
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