Jack Chick, Cartoonist Behind Hundreds Of Homophobic, Paranoid Christian Tracts, Dead At 92

More than 800 million "Chick Tracts" have been circulated in airports, bus stations and other public spaces.
From: NewNowNext

 Cartoonist Jack Chick, the artist-writer behind hundreds of illustrated Christian booklets called “Chick Tracts,” died Sunday at the age of 92.

 A devout fundamentalist, Chick espoused extremist Christian values in his illustrated tales, which were often left in airports and bus stations.

Lacking in subtlety, the tracts often point to satanic influence as the cause of society’s ills. (The Devil is literally portrayed as a man in a devil suit whispering into people’s ears.)

 Homosexuals were frequent targets of Chick’s wrath, with stories explaining how gay people have sinister motives and are despised by God.

 His earliest anti-LGBT booklet, “The Gay Blade” from 1972, incorporated frames from a 1971 Life magazine photo essay on the gay rights movement, but altered images to make the gay men in it look more feminine and dissolute.

 Chick was also an ardent critic of evolution, Halloween, masturbation, rock music and Dungeons and Dragons. He attacked all non-evangelical faiths, especially Catholicism and Islam.

Chick was an avid drawer from a young age, and began proselytizing after returning home from WWII.

Having heard that small tracts helped convert millions of Chinese to Maoist communism, he crafted his short, graphic parables to “win” souls to God.

Chick Publications estimates more than 800 million tracts have been printed over the years.