Jack Chick hated Catholics, Jews, Freemasons, Dungeons & Dragons, Mormons, Harry Potter, and the Devil. He also published a series of comic book bible tract zines for just over a decade during the 1970′s and 1980′s that helped to kickstart the Satanic Panic. The comics also won Chick an ironic status among comic fans and artists who admired Chick’s prolific publishing even if they thought his ideas were ridiculous, hilarious or just plain crazy. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing pulled this bit from the Wiki…

Chick Publications has released over twenty-three full-color “Chick comics” since its founding. They are full-size comic books and most were first published between 1974 and 1985. The first eleven form the Crusader comics series, which follows the stories of two fundamentalist Christians and addresses topics such as the occult, Bible prophecy, and the theory of evolution.[21] Six comics present the testimony of anti-Catholic activist Alberto Rivera, who said that, as a Jesuit priest, he had become privy to many secrets about the Roman Catholic Church. Among Rivera’s statements: He says the Catholic Church created Islam,[22] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[23] as well as the Jehovah’s Witnesses.[24] He also says the Catholic Church was responsible for the Holocaust,[25][26][27] the founding of Communism, Nazism, and the Ku Klux Klan; starting the World Wars;[25] masterminding the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy.[25] There are also three independent comics, one telling stories from the King James Version of the Bible (Chick is pro-King James Onlyism), one relaying the statements of Charles Chiniquy regarding Catholicism, and one detailing Chick’s opinions on Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Everybody is talking about Chick today as news of his death started popping up all over the internet on Monday afternoon. Here’s a kickass YouTube playlist featuring a bunch of Chick’s comics. Laugh at the clumsy Christian propaganda, be shocked at the barely concealed hate and conspiracy theories, and bid farewell to a comics pioneer of a kind whose best accomplishment in life was probably making some nerds laugh. Vaya con Dios, Chick.

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The famous devil image by the artist Coop

Hope you all had one devil of a weekend. Speaking of the horned one, our good friends over at Forbidden Knowledge T.V. have been turning up a lot of really good, full length offerings lately. Nowadays, I find myself bookmarking the site like crazy trying to keep up with all of the docs they’ve been posting.

The History of the Devil begins with the Old Testament and brings us up to the present day in its examination of the personification of evil and its changing place in our world.

The idea of god’s evil enemy has been around for thousands of years and its still as powerful as ever. But where did Satan’s story begin? Where did he come from, and how did he become the Prince of Darkness?

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Watch this performance of my OccupySong at Occupy Congress in DC!