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Chick Tracts

Discussion in 'Comics/Art' started by Cyan, Jan 24, 2017.

  1. Cyan

    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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    I'm sure you've seen these around before.


    These are those little Evangelical comics that were mass produced and handed out everywhere. They always had some message along the lines of "everything you enjoy is sinful but Jesus is here to make it all go away and to take you to heaven."

    The most notorious one being Lisa, where the main character was a child-rapist who ended up converting after his doctor confronted him about giving his own kid herpes. This one was so poorly received that Jack Chick actually pulled it from circulation and had it removed from his site.

    You ever received one of these things?
     
  2. Descent

    Descent Well-Known Member

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    Someone actually gave my mom one of these. I can't remember which one but I have it in a drawer somewhere. Pretty ballsy since allegedly they are illegal to hand out in Canada. My favourite will always be the one where the 4 year old is raped by her dad and gets herpes, but it's okay because he finds big J in the end and the family lives happily ever after.
     
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  3. PigaDgrifm

    PigaDgrifm For every problem there's a Final Solution.

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    I'm literally shaking right now.
     
  4. The Great Chandler

    The Great Chandler Follow the [Lovequest]

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    I wish I came across those, but I don't live in Floridaland.
     
  5. PigaDgrifm

    PigaDgrifm For every problem there's a Final Solution.

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  6. Hellblazer

    Hellblazer Autism on the rocks Staff Member Administrator Moderator

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    There was a kiosk selling them at a small press expo I went to. Really wish I'd bought one, but I didn't know what they were at the time.
     
  7. Cyan

    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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    If it makes you feel better, you can easily read them for free on the internet if you look hard enough.
     
  8. bungholio

    bungholio Deader than the parents on "Party Of Five".

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    I actually found one irl once. It was last year at a Dunkin' Donuts right across from the Catholic school I went to as a kid....which is funny because it was the "Are Catholics Christians?" tract. :story:
     
  9. Hellblazer

    Hellblazer Autism on the rocks Staff Member Administrator Moderator

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    Oh, I've read a bunch since then, but just think it'd be cool to have a paper one.
     
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  10. Another Fellow

    Another Fellow the unwanted one

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    All of them but Lisa (the child rape one) are available in their entirety on their website. That's how I've gotten my fix of John 3:16 spamming thus far.
     
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  11. Descent

    Descent Well-Known Member

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    Dat Jew nose (also, he is for some reason nodding his head as indicated by the movement lines behind him).
     
  12. ToroidalBoat

    ToroidalBoat ¿qué?

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    Is that legit? Which one is that from?

    chick.com
     
  13. Another Fellow

    Another Fellow the unwanted one

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    "Still No Revival."
     
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  14. Cornholio

    Cornholio I need TP for my bunghole!

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    I have this one. I wish I asked the woman who gave me it for more of them. Coincidentally, the day she gave me it was also the day Chick died.
     
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    Skeletor Skellington Justice Warrior

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    I found one at the gym once, but it threw it out after a while. I can always get my fix of Chick Tracts online.
     
  16. HotaruThodt

    HotaruThodt I Can Feel the Cosmos!

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    I got one in my treat-or-treat basket when I was seven (specifically this one: https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0011/0011_01.asp). My mom saw it and after looking it over she tore it in half and then tore into the neighbor who handed it to me. I never went trick-or-treating at their house again.
     
  17. Cyan

    Cyan #00FFFF Staff Member B& AF, Fam Moderator

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    The more of these I see the more I think these are where my own mother got her worldview. Also the religion that the druids practiced was pretty much eradicated about a millennium ago, so we have no way of knowing what their practices were. Pretty sure they didn't invent Halloween.
     
  18. PigaDgrifm

    PigaDgrifm For every problem there's a Final Solution.

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    How nutso do you have to be to give this kind of thing to a kid? :rolleyes:
     
  19. Another Fellow

    Another Fellow the unwanted one

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    This kind of nutso.
     
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  20. HotaruThodt

    HotaruThodt I Can Feel the Cosmos!

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    Very much so. I live in the Bible Belt after all.

    I forgot to mention this part, but years later when my grandmother was teaching the seniors in Sunday school she gave us each a Chick Tract and wanted us to do a book report on the Tract we were given. Shit didn't get done though, because one guy in our class named JD decided to read his aloud. Even my grandmother was laughing.

    He got this Tract: https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0025/0025_01.asp