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Right here -- this is the point where I'm going to Hell.

Posted on 2007.04.08 at 20:07
...it's Easter.

It's Easter... and Johnny Hart has died.

Oh my God, the jokes write themselves.
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Blackbyrd
[info]blackbyrd2 at 2007-04-09 00:16 (UTC) (Link)
Well, at least you won't go alone. :)
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The Ferrett
[info]theferrett at 2007-04-09 00:17 (UTC) (Link)
My wife:

"He'll be back in three days."

And you wonder why I love her.
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Mason Kramer
[info]masonk at 2007-04-09 00:22 (UTC) (Link)
As long as B.C. isn't....
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Voltjan Stevens
[info]voltjanstevens at 2007-04-09 00:26 (UTC) (Link)
Mere death can't stop the worst comics. Especially not the worst comics that are pretty much written by God.
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no_relation
[info]no_relation at 2007-04-09 23:41 (UTC) (Link)
That's a pretty mean thing to say about God, isn't it?
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Voltjan Stevens
[info]voltjanstevens at 2007-04-10 00:45 (UTC) (Link)
I don't know. Look at what he did to Job. BC could just be a test for the rest of us.
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Cavalorn
[info]cavalorn at 2007-04-09 00:22 (UTC) (Link)
We're going to need a bigger handbasket.
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Dave Van Domelen
[info]dvandom at 2007-04-09 00:26 (UTC) (Link)
Hart's one of those guys who tragically died too late. He could have been remembered as a brilliant comic writer cut down in his prime, rather than as a crazy religious coot finally gone to meet his favorite topic and good riddance.
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david_wisdom
[info]david_wisdom at 2007-04-09 00:32 (UTC) (Link)
I'm reminded of Charles Schultz' death and the many tributes from comic strippers and comic book artists that resulted.

And I'm wondering what could be produced to commemorate Johnny Hart.

Specifically, by Randy Milholland.
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Paul Gadzikowski
[info]scarfman at 2007-04-09 00:43 (UTC) (Link)

That son of a bitch.

I have my calendar marked for the day in 2008 he would have had gone fifty years never missing a daily, beating Schulz out by about six months. (Yes, I realize I'm the last person to care, but there you are.) And he goes and does this. Fucking Christian modesty.

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Mason Kramer
[info]masonk at 2007-04-09 00:53 (UTC) (Link)
But Schulz only did this with one strip. Hart did it with two. So if you go by that, Hart's been doing it almost twice as long as Schulz did....
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Demiurgent
[info]demiurgent at 2007-04-09 01:04 (UTC) (Link)
Ahhh, but Sparky drew his comic. Hart didn't draw either of his at least most of the time.
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Society without a Suitcase
[info]mrbankies at 2007-04-09 01:07 (UTC) (Link)
It was my impression that Hart wrote and drew BC. Did he have a ghost artist?
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Demiurgent
[info]demiurgent at 2007-04-09 01:11 (UTC) (Link)
I'm sorry -- he did write and drew BC. Parker was Wizard of Id only.
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Sucker Love
[info]dlobok at 2007-04-09 01:32 (UTC) (Link)
What a horrible fucking loss.
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John Troutman
[info]troutman at 2007-04-09 03:36 (UTC) (Link)
Say what you will about his work, but the dude died at his drafting table. I mean, seriously, what a way to go, drawing comics until your dying breath!
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Darth Paradox
[info]darthparadox at 2007-04-09 04:43 (UTC) (Link)
Agreed. I have to concede the commitment to his craft, whatever my personal opinions of the quality of said work.
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[info]airmanjack at 2007-04-09 07:47 (UTC) (Link)
Will we be seeing a snark about this?
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Demiurgent
[info]demiurgent at 2007-04-09 14:41 (UTC) (Link)
Probably not. I don't have a solid enough sense of perspective on this. I mean, on the one hand he was a fifty year veteran of cartooning, with many classic strips behind him and tremendous success and influence on the form.

On the other hand, I neither liked his strips nor -- as time went on -- the man himself. And I have a hard time "just saying something nice" about a man like him. I don't think a commemorative I could write would have the appropriate balance.
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"You are one messed-up puppy."
[info]jenfullmoon at 2007-04-09 21:18 (UTC) (Link)
Heh, Gene Weingarten was asked the same question and gave a response similar to yours on a Washington Post chat.
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