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JACK CHICK

Name: Jack Chick                                                                   
Born: 13 April 1924 Boyle Heights, California                                     
Nationality American                                                               
Occupation publisher, writer,                                                     
comic book artist                                                                 
                                                                                   
Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) is an American publisher, writer and       
comic book artist, and the most published comic book author in the world. His     
company, Chick Publications, has published over 500 million comic-style tracts,   
known as Chick tracts, comic books, videos, books, and posters for the purpose     
of Protestant evangelism from a fundamentalist point of view. Many of these are   
seen as controversial as they target beliefs and cultures in what many perceive   
as a negative manner. His views have been spread worldwide, mostly through the     
tracks and now online, and have been translated into more than 100 languages.     
As evidenced from his tracks and books Chick is an Independent Baptist, a         
premillennial dispensationalist, and a follower of the King-James-Only Movement.