Johnny Hart. Dead.

By Mark Kaufman
Johnny Hart the cartoonist, creator of B.C and the Wizard of Id has died. Much has been said in the past and in his obits about his ultra christian, anti-semitic, anti- muslim cartoon and viewpoint. Quite frankly I don’t give a shit. It’s a free country, if he wanted to write garbage that makes morons laugh, that was his right. Because I am militant about my right to say otherwise. My problem was always that both comics were terribly unfunny, uninteresting and seemingly in a creative rut for many, many years. And now there is word that the family members that have been producing the strips will continue to do so using an “extensive computer archive of drawings to work with”. Well, garbage in, garbage out. My question is this, do the family members that will keep churning out this bunkum have the same small minded attitudes about religion and race and the same god-awful old jokes?