{"id":14042,"date":"2025-07-13T18:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:50:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:50:59","slug":"the-man-behind-chick-tracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=14042","title":{"rendered":"The Man Behind Chick Tracts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Somewhere I have a small stash of Chick tracts — Jack Chick’s little Christian comics. I had two collecting rules: I wanted the ones that were openly anti-witch, anti-metaphysical or anti-occult, and second, I had to find them in the wild. Sending away for them<\/a> would not count; I had to them tucked inside a library book on witch trials or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, there is a collection in the library at Yale University.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So who was Jack Chick, and why did he do it? He died in 2016, and here is the write-up he got in Christianity Today<\/em>: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The biggest name in tract evangelism, Chick distributed more than 500 million pamphlets, nicknamed \u201cchicklets,\u201d over five decades. His signature black-and-white panel comics warned against the dangers of everything from the occult to Family Guy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And if you ever in New Haven, Conn., stop by the Yale library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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