There will be no cut to this post.
I normally don’t do the “oh look, someone famous died,” but this one is a little different. Johnny Hart passed away, appropriately enough, at his story board today. Hart created what I considered to be one of the funniest comic strips ever, “B.C.” and co-created with B. Parker, “The Wizard of Id.”
A religious man, Hart had come under fire in recent years for using his Easter and Christmas “B.C.” strips to promote Christianity. This year’s strip was no different. That said, I enjoyed reading “B.C.” over the last 40 years and will miss the strip.
One of the funniest “B.C.” strips I ever read was a four panel one, in the early sixties, in which BC and Peter watch as an ant slips and falls off a large rock. Peter comments in amazement to BC that it is a miracle that the ant is able to survive a fall like that. Cut to the last panel and we see the ant, staggering as it says, “I hope I can make it to the cemetery.” I have never forgotten that strip, but then, to me, it was typical Hart. Timeless.
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