Johnny Hart goes to the great drawing board in the sky

Navyhacker006 on 9/4/2007 at 19:53

(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18013348/?GT1=9246)

Saw this at about 4 o'clock this morning. Amazingly sad way to start my day. Been a fan of B.C. for as long as I can remember; played the game ages ago on the C64, and always read it and Wizard of Id when I had the chance.

I actually found one of the B.C.s lying around a couple of days ago, expressing confusion about why the Sun comes up, and goes down, while everything else goes up and comes down.

fett on 9/4/2007 at 21:36

Inline Image:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c294/Fett42/03.jpg

I also remember playing B.C. on floppy disks back in the day. B.C. was truly the only print comic left with any bite or edge whatsoever. Even when he did his little token christian thing at Easter and Christmas there was typically a little ire in it.

I just keep thinking, "Why couldn't it have been Jim Davis?"

Stitch on 9/4/2007 at 22:36

I thought the world seemed a little brighter today!

mxleader on 10/4/2007 at 06:04

This is sad news indeed. I read B.C. and Wizard of Id for many years. :(

Turtle on 10/4/2007 at 06:53

Quote Posted by fett

B.C. was truly the only print comic left with any bite or edge whatsoever.

You are fricking insane.
B.C. stopped being readable nearly 15 years ago.

I'm with Stitch.
I can't say I'm glad he's dead, but I'm looking forward to not having his strip clutter up my comics page.
Now, what to do about this Bil & Jeffy Keane...

Gestalt on 10/4/2007 at 08:31

Quote Posted by Turtle

I can't say I'm glad he's dead, but I'm looking forward to not having his strip clutter up my comics page.

I think his kids are continuing the strip by picking panels from a database of stuff Hart drew. It's not like the strips differed much visually anyway.

We'll never be rid of it.

Dia on 10/4/2007 at 12:24

Though I'm sorry to hear of Mr. Hart's sudden death (my sincere sympathies to his family), I have to agree with Turtle. I used to love B.C., but it lost its charm for me quite some years ago.

Still, it was a classic in its time.

(I rather liked the chick that whomped the daylights out of snakes! :laff: )

fett on 10/4/2007 at 15:05

Quote Posted by Turtle

You are fricking insane.
B.C. stopped being readable nearly 15 years ago.

Hmmm...I probably quite reading the comics about 10 years ago and it was still decent then. Much better that Beetle fucking Bailey and Haagar My Wife is a Horrible Bitch and all those. I liked Hart when he took thinly disguised pot shots at politicians and such. Guess I didn't see the bad stuff.

I should also retract my earlier statement - it seems that when I do catch the comics, Doonsbury is still passable, but everything else seems to appeal to 8 year olds.

Malygris on 10/4/2007 at 15:25

Back some years ago, when I was fairly young, I was a pretty big BC fan. I didn't read the strip in the paper - reading the paper was something old people did - but I bought a lot of the compilation pocketbooks, and I got a lot of laughs out of them. But somewhere along the line, the strip changed (or maybe it was me?) and it stopped being funny. So, RIP Johnny Hart, and nothing personal, but please take your fuckin' comic strip with you.

Stitch on 10/4/2007 at 19:49

Quote Posted by fett

B.C. was a bucket of soft dicks to begin with, easily as uninspired as the worst output of the Old Man Cartooning and Golfing Society (Hagar, Hi and Lois, Beetle Bailey, et al), but it wasn't until Hart became born again and decided his shit strip was the perfect soapbox for proselytization that B.C. descended to its current status as the second worst syndicated strip of our age.