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Johnny Hart (February 18, 1931 – April 7, 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips.^[1] is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Endicott is a village in Broome County, New York, USA. The population was 13,038 at the 2000 census. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A small town on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Nineveh is famous as the home of Johnny Hart, illustrator and writer of B.C. and co-writer and illustrator, along with Brant Parker of The Wizard of Id, published worldwide. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_USA.svgâ€Ž REDIRECT File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Elvis Presley Stevie Nicks Jodie Foster Janet Jackson Meryl Streep Jessica Lange Faye Dunaway Madonna (entertainer) Trent Reznor Diana Ross User:Mtiedemann... B.C. logo in a 2005 comic strip. ... The Wizard of Id on the cover of an Italian collection of his stories. ... is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... B.C. logo in a 2005 comic strip. ... The Wizard of Id on the cover of an Italian collection of his stories. ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... Adamson Awards have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair since 1965. ...

Biography

Hart's first published work was shown in Stars and Stripes while he served in Korea as an enlisted member of the United States Air Force, and after returning in 1953 he published work in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. Hart's biggest success, B.C., was created in 1957 and began national daily newspapers appearances on February 17, 1958.^[2] Hart also co-created and wrote the comic strip The Wizard of Id, drawn by Brant Parker, which has been distributed since November 9, 1964.^[2] Stars and Stripes is the newspaper published for the United States Armed Forces overseas. ... Combatants United Nations: Republic of Korea, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Medical staff: Denmark, Australia, Italy, Norway, Sweden Communist states: Democratic Peopleâ€™s Republic of Korea, Peoples Republic of China, Soviet Union Commanders... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven uniformed services. ... A cover of the Saturday Evening Post from 1903 The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, 1969. ... November 24, 1917 cover Colliers Weekly was an American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brant Parker (born August 26, 1920) is a cartoonist who draws The Wizard of Id comic strip which is written by fellow cartoonist Johnny Hart. ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

Hart died of a stroke on April 7, 2007. According to his wife, he was working at his drawing table at the time of his death.^[3]^[4] Brant Parker died just eight days later, on April 15, 2007. Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Brant Parker (born August 26, 1920) is a cartoonist who draws The Wizard of Id comic strip which is written by fellow cartoonist Johnny Hart. ... is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Religious convictions

Though Hart was raised in a casually religious family, he attended Christian Sunday School regularly. Although his formal education ended with high school, he was fascinated by the Bible from a young age.^[5] In 1977 there was a distinguishable shift in Hart's spirituality, and Hart and wife Bobby began attending a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Nineveh, New York. Hart attributed his religious awakening to a father-son team of contractors who installed a satellite dish.^[5] Hart's increasingly deep religious faith, and the staunch political conservatism that accompanied it, came to be the source of considerable controversy in the later years of his life. In a 1999 interview with The Washington Post, for example, he stated that "Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn in Hell" and that "homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan."^[6] In the same piece, Hart opined that "the end of the world is approaching, maybe by the year 2010." The lion's share of controversy, however, came from Hart's increasing tendency to incorporate his religious and political themes and ideals into his comic strips, especially B.C. Some newspapers refused to print strips with overtly religious themes or, as with the Los Angeles Times, relegated them to the religious section of the newspaper.^[7] Image File history File links BC_Hart_turtle. ... Image File history File links BC_Hart_turtle. ... Christianity percentage by country, purple is highest, orange is lowest Topics in Christianity Movements Â· Denominations Ecumenism Â· Preaching Â· Prayer Music Â· Liturgy Â· Calendar Symbols Â· Art Â· Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul Â· Church Fathers Constantine Â· Athanasius Â· Augustine Anselm Â· Aquinas Â· Palamas Â· Wycliffe Tyndale Â· Luther Â· Calvin Â· Wesley Arius Â· Marcion of Sinope Pope Â· Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... Emblem of the PC(USA) The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) or PC(USA) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States. ... A small town on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Nineveh is famous as the home of Johnny Hart, illustrator and writer of B.C. and co-writer and illustrator, along with Brant Parker of The Wizard of Id, published worldwide. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: Ù…Ø³Ù„Ù…, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: Ù…Ø³Ù„Ù…Ø§Ù†, Turkish: MÃ¼slÃ¼man, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Gustave DorÃ©s depiction of Satan from John Miltons Paradise Lost Satan, from the Hebrew word for adversary (Standard Hebrew: , Satan; Tiberian Hebrew ; Koine Greek: Î£Î±Ï„Î±Î½Î¬Ï‚ SatanÃ¡s, Persian: , SatanÃ¡s; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , , Geez: , Turkish: Åžeytan), is a term that originates from the Abrahamic faiths, being traditionally applied to... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ...

Controversial strips

Two strips in particular were controversial. The B.C. strip for April 15 2001, which was Easter, portrayed a menorah with seven candles progressively burning out as the strip captions ran the words of Jesus Christ. At the end, the outer arms of the candelabra broke away, leaving a Christian cross, with the final panel portraying the opened and empty tomb of Christ.^[8] Critics including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee argued that Hart's strip portrayed replacement theology, that is, the conception of Christianity as supplanting Judaism. Hart offered an apology "if I have offended any readers," but still thought the strip could increase "religious awareness" and claimed that he had meant the strip to be a tribute to both religions.^[7]^[9]^[10] Topics in Christianity Movements Â· Denominations Ecumenism Â· Preaching Â· Prayer Music Â· Liturgy Â· Calendar Symbols Â· Art Â· Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul Â· Church Fathers Constantine Â· Athanasius Â· Augustine Anselm Â· Aquinas Â· Palamas Â· Wycliffe Tyndale Â· Luther Â· Calvin Â· Wesley Arius Â· Marcion of Sinope Pope Â· Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box: Easter, the Sunday of... A coin issued by Mattathias Antigonus, c. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The traditional form of the Western Christian cross, known as the Latin cross. ... The death and resurrection of Jesus are two events in the New Testament in which Jesus is crucified on one day (the Day of Preparation, i. ... Anti-Defamation League Logo The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an advocacy group founded by Bnai Brith in the United States whose stated aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Supersessionism is the traditional Christian belief that Christianity is the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism, and therefore that Jews who deny that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah fall short of their calling as Gods Chosen people. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Another B.C. strip, which ran November 10 2003, showed an outhouse with a traditional crescent, which a character entered with a vertical graphic "SLAM", only to ask, "Is it just me, or does it stink in here?" Critics including the Council on American-Islamic Relations claimed that the combination of the vertical bar and the "SLAM", as well as the crescent moons both in the sky and on the outhouse, made the strip a slur on Islam. Hart denied that it was anything but an outhouse joke.^[8] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Council for an American Islamic Republic(CAIR) is an Islamic advocacy group in North America, funded by American Muslims and also in significant part by sources with connections to Arab Middle Eastern governments. ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ...

Personal life

Hart was an active member of his local community - the area of Greater Binghamton in Broome County, New York, which shares a common abbreviation of 'B.C.' Hart donated B.C.-based drawings and logos free of charge to many entities and organizations found in the Broome County area, including logos for: Greater Binghamton is the regional name given to the area of Broome County, New York and the surrounding area. ... Broome County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. ...

Hart's involvement with the B.C. Open dates back to the early 1970's, and characters from B.C. are used extensively in advertising and marketing materials for the event, including the winner's trophy which is a bronzed version of a hapless B.C. Caveman golfing, a light-hearted trophy when compared to many others, leading it to earn the designation of being "voted by the players on Tour as the best trophy on Tour; the one that they would love to have." ^[11] Broome County Transit,popularly branded as B.C. Transit, is the public transportation system serving Broome County, New York, namely the city of Binghamton and surrounding communities. ... The B.C. Open logo created by Johnny Hart. ... The Broome Dusters were an ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League. ... The North American Hockey League (NAHL) and the defunct American West Hockey League merged in 2003 to form a 21-team Junior A league, sanctioned by USA Hockey. ... The B.C. Icemen are a defunct member of the United Hockey League. ... The United Hockey League is a professional AA-level minor league in ice hockey in the United States. ...

Additionally, Hart contributed original panels of B.C. strips for charity auctions with the Binghamton, New York-based PBS affiliate, WSKG-TV. He also provided album cover art for the 1999 album Still Fresh by a capella group The Four Freshmen, and his strips for B.C. were the inspiration for the mascot of UC Irvine, the anteater. ^[12] Binghamton is a city located in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. ... WSKG-TV is a non-profit Public Broadcasting affiliate servicing Central, Western, the Southern Tier of New York State, and Northeast Pennsylvania, with offices based in Vestal, NY. WSKG-FM and WSQX-FM are other broadcast stations operated by the same group. ... The Four Freshmen were an American vocal group popular from the 1950s through the early 1960s. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public, coeducational university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ...

Continuing work

Prior to his death, Hart had built up a significant computer archive of drawings for B.C., and family members have been assisting with drawing the strips for several years. It is expected that new B.C. strips will continue to be produced for the foreseeable future.^[13]

Tribute

Hart was memorialized in a May 14, 2007 strip of the comic strip Mother Goose & Grimm. In the June 20, 2007 Blondie strip, the last panel shows Mr. Dithers saying, "Boy oh boy, that Johnny Hart sure knew his stuff, didn't he?" Bruce Tinsley honored Hart in his Mallard Fillmore strip of July 10th, 2007. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mother Goose & Grimm is an internationally-syndicated cartoon strip by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mike Peters. ... Mother Goose & Grimm is an internationally-syndicated cartoon strip by Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mike Peters. ... Bruce Tinsley Edward Bruce Tinsley (born 1958 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American cartoonist, best known for his conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore. ... For the U.S. President with a similar name, see Millard Fillmore. ...

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Awards

The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Reuben Awards, named for Rube Goldberg, are presented each year by the National Cartoonists Society. ... Adamson Awards have been presented by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art (SACA) at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair since 1965. ...

References

^ Bernstein, Adam. Obituary: Johnny Hart. The Washington Post.
^ ^a ^b Lambiek Comiclopedia. Johnny Hart.
^ Johnny Hart Dies at 76. The New York Times.
^ BC cartoonist dies while drawing, BBC News
^ ^a ^b At the Hart of B.C.. Plain Truth Ministries.
^ Noland, Claire (April 9, 2007). Johnny Hart, 76; created 'B.C.' comic strip. Los Angeles Times.
^ ^a ^b Christian Century. Easter Comic Strip Creates an Uproar.
^ ^a ^b Gene Weingarten. "Cartoon Raises a Stink: Some See Slur Against Islam in a 'B.C.' Outhouse Strip", The Washington Post, November 21, 2003. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ USA Today. 'B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at 76.
^ CNN.com. 'B.C.' cartoonist Johnny Hart dies.
^ George Basler. "B.C. Loses Hart", Press & Sun-Bulletin, April 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ "UC Irvine, Peter the Anteater", UC Irvine. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ Mary Esch. "Johnny Hart, 'B.C.' creator, dies at 76", Associated Press, April 9, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
^ NCS awards. The Reuben.

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External links

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