Johnny Hart, creator of the cartoon strip BC died Saturday at his drawing board. What a wonderful fellow. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Hart never caved in when it came to his beliefs. He took a lot of bashing for his testimonies in his work. http://alljoneses.com/images/blog/bc-easter2.gif I admire this mans life, his faith and his work. God bless you Johnny!
THE REALITY OF THE NAME OF GOD
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I began reading B.C back in the late 60's and early 70's. Back then you could buy collections of the strip in paperback.
Johnny Hart was truly an original whose faith did flow from his pen. Unabashedly a believer, he was not an in-your-face angry evangelical. He was a simple, let the characters speak. Each one distinct with quirks that endeared them to me.
Clumsy Carp---the maladroit whose gift and talen was that he could make "water" balls and stack them.
Wiley-- Poet Laurete of the Plestine Age. Always ruminating under his tree.
Fat Broad- Angry at the world and always took out her frustration on the resident snake.
I could go on and on...
the world has lost another voice.
Rest now Mr. Hart....Rest.
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My uncle Pat knew Johnny Hart from his Warner Robbins Air Force days. Pat was the base historian. Johnny left back in the 50's to pursue his cartooning career. I have some old Hart cartoons from a base directory that Uncle Pat sent me a while back. I'll dig it up sometime and post some of his old cartoons.
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