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08 Apr 2007, 8:02 pm

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Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott, New York. He was 76.

"He had a stroke," Hart's wife, Bobby, said Sunday. "He died at his storyboard."


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/08/obit.h ... index.html

The Wizard of Id is one of my favorite comic strips. On the one hand, I'd like to see more strips, but on the other hand, I'd hate for them not to be as entertaining because the same cartoonist isn't working on it anymore.



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08 Apr 2007, 8:33 pm

May his memory be for a blessing.

What I won't miss, however, are the strips about the 'fat broad' and those that insisted that Christianity is the only way to be in relationship with G-d. I still cringe when I think of the 2001 Easter Sunday strip that showed a menorah becoming a cross. He never understood how offensive that was to Jews.


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09 Apr 2007, 2:33 am

'tis a sad day for me.