B.C.’ cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at storyboard
ENDICOTT, N.Y. -(AP)- cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.” comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76.
“He had a stroke,” Hart’s wife, Bobby, said on Sunday. “He died at his storyboard.“[emphasis added]
More, Don Markstien, Toonpedia.
Addendum: Hart was from Endicot, New York. His local home town paper, Sun & Press Bulletin has a very nice article, displaying that local connection:
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April 9th, 2007 at 22:33
Johnny was a GREAT guy! I really appreciate and admire his stand for the Lord. I feel blessed to have known him personally and also feel blessed that he endorsed my cartoon book GOOD MEDICINE (religious “FAR SIDE”-type cartoons) http://goodmedicinecartoons.tripod.com . Since he was a fellow Christian, I KNOW that he is with Jesus now in Paradise (ref. 1 John 5:13), since the Bible talks about a believer being present with the Lord when they are absent from the body (ref. 2 Cor. 5:8)! Please pray for his wife’s (Bobby) and family’s comfort at this time. He will be TRULY missed, but I look forward to the time when I can hang out with him in Heaven and reminisce about cartooning times here on earth. Johnny believed in what Jesus said in the Bible in John 3:16; “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” I feel that upon entering Heaven, Jesus may have said to Johnny something similar to “Welcome Home, thy good and faithful servant!”
April 10th, 2007 at 11:56
All cartoonists reflect some aspect of the culture. Humor only works if it has the ring of truth. Yet some few cartoonist move beyond reflecting the culture become part of our culture. For example, we still speak of Sadie Hawkins Days and Fearless Fosdicks. Peanuts was window into our human nature, and so remains. B.C. is in the same league.