It’s Good Friday and I’m reminded of the strange metamorphosis of cartoonist Johnny Hart from pre-historic yuk master to born-again Christian. “B.C.” was considered the most widely read comic strip on the planet at the time Hart moved to a home with no TV. But Hart liked TV, so he ordered a satellite system. In a odd twist of faith, a father and son team of born-again Christian installation men showed and with the love of God in their hearts programmed Christian television shows on every set in Hart’s house before they spilt.
According to Hart “We had several TV sets, so every room I went into, these guys would have Christian TV on. I’d go into one room and see D. James Kennedy. I’d go into another room and see the PTL Club or another preacher. I began to sit and watch and listen, and pretty soon I got hooked on it.” So hooked was Hart that till the end of his life he insisted upon putting Christian messages in his comics. His conversion confirms that God does indeed work in mischievous way, after all the strip was called “B.C.” In honor of this Good News, why not take a stab at picking your own king today: Jesus or TV?
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What is this 1995
04.10.09 at 12:29 pm
hey I never knew that.. huh. was BC ever funny tho? when you’re a kid comic strips are kind of like candy, calvin and hobbes was like pop rocks, and garfield was like a 2 ft long pixie stik and BC was like those orange and black chewie shitty candys left in the bottom of the halloween bag a week into november, much like Hagar the Horrible was your run of the mill yellow lollipop, you ate it every time but it was a dull fuckin lemon every time.
For better or for worse was like Sesame Snaps.. i.e. you ate that shit up cos the drawings seemed good but was not really candy or fun per se, and Adam was like: whaaa the fuck these chocolates have fuckin domestic raisins inside. I always really wanted to DO IT with Adam’s blond wife cos she was basically a coolly sadistic bitch who was def cheating on him, and now I’m older and more worldly wise realise in fact she was prob cuckolding Adam who out of panel was slurping Drabble dribble out of her sweet ass
04.10.09 at 12:44 pm
Hey that’s a good analogy.
Andy Capp is like Circus Peanuts (can’t understand why anyone likes it)
Prince Valiant is like Black Licorice (you never read it until you’ve read all the other ones, and then you just read it cuz it’s there)
Shoe is like a Werther’s Original (loved by the elderly)
Blondie is like a Chick-O Stick (it’s from the 50’s)
Ziggy is like those powdery chalky mints that dissolve instantly and don’t taste like anything.
Oh and Cathy is like a decadent $7 chocolate bar, because the best thing sin life are chocolate.
04.10.09 at 1:35 pm
B.C. also stands for Broome County (Johnny Hart’s home county), which includes Binghamton. The transit buses there have the little caveman on the side and the official parks and recreation is the dinosaur.
04.10.09 at 1:43 pm
*official parks and recreaction LOGO
04.10.09 at 1:44 pm
B.C. was funny in a Grade 4 quipy sort of way however I had no idea that it was some Christian hustle like In-N-Out Burger or Chick-fil-A. I guess when you bundle all those hyphens together you got yourself the makings of a handy crucifying cross.
04.10.09 at 2:04 pm
As for the King? I am sticking with Elvis!
04.10.09 at 2:05 pm
Poison Idea’s “Pick Your King” EP came out in 1983 not 1995.
04.10.09 at 2:14 pm
tv
04.10.09 at 2:15 pm
that’s fucked up. christian tv?
04.10.09 at 2:20 pm
undoubtedly, a classic stockholm syndrome casualty.
04.10.09 at 2:45 pm
Edgar Burns Crutchfield III has poor grammar skills.
04.10.09 at 3:06 pm
i’ve been reading my Peanuts treasury and can safely say this shit is the funniest strip of ALL TIME. fuck you bloom county cancer patients and your calvin and hobbes aids deaths and your far side dahmer types (that’s how delustional and sickening you are with your homosexual zombie wanting levels of offness) STOP RAPING AND KILLING PEOPLE WITH Y OUR ERRONEOUS OPINIONES
04.11.09 at 11:19 pm
Bloom County was the shiznit. Bill The Cat was the greatest rock star to never exist.
04.12.09 at 12:05 am