Syndicated newspaper cartoonist Johnny Hart died Saturday, sitting at his storyboard in his upstate New York home. Hart (right) was the writer/artist for B.C., the caveman strip that only last February passed its 49th anniversary mark, and as the writer on The Wizard of Id. It was B.C. that attracted the most attention, though, especially in recent decades once Hart’s conversion to evangelical Christianity began to shape the strip’s content. As Jews and Muslims argued (with rather compelling evidence) that Hart had crossed the line into religious bigotry, he publicly maintained his innocence, informing one reporter, “It would be contradictory to my own faith as a Christian to insult other people’s beliefs.” Fans will undoubtedly prefer to remember him as, in the words of colleague Mell Lazarus, “one of the best cartoonists we’ve ever had.”
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