Cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at his storyboard, age 76. He was the creator of B.C. and co-creator of Wizard of Id. R.I.P.
UPDATE:
Michelle Malkin has a reader who points out that Johnny Hart coined the phrase “kick-butt Saturday” as the nickname for the day before Easter…the day on which Hart would later pass away.
Hart had several controversies related to his strip’s religious nature…probably none sillier than the outhouse strip.
Captain’s Quarters: “Hart used his characters in both strips, set in the past, to skewer the foibles of modern people and governments. He especially liked to poke fun at the egotistical and self-important. His consistent theme was the primacy of the common man.”
PvP’s Scott Kurtz: “He was 76 and he died at his drawing table. That’s the way I want to go.”
Johnny was a GREAT guy! I really appreciate and admire his stand for the Lord. I feel blessed to have known him personally and also feel blessed that he endorsed my cartoon book GOOD MEDICINE (religious “FAR SIDE”-type cartoons). Since he was a fellow Christian, I KNOW that he is with Jesus now in Paradise (ref. 1 John 5:13), since the Bible talks about a believer being present with the Lord when they are absent from the body (ref. 2 Cor. 5:8)! Please pray for his wife’s (Bobby) and family’s comfort at this time. He will be TRULY missed, but I look forward to the time when I can hang out with him in Heaven and reminisce about cartooning times here on earth. Johnny believed in what Jesus said in the Bible in John 3:16; “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” I feel that upon entering Heaven, Jesus may have said to Johnny something similar to “Welcome Home, thy good and faithful servant!”