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Jack Chick, animated: "Somebody Goofed," by Syd & Rodney

submitted by Trancecoach

1 decade 6 years ago

A redemption tale by the prolific religious comic book artist Jack Chick is born again through animation, in a classic short film by Syd Garon and Rodney Ascher.

Chick, born in 1924, is the most published comic book author in the world. Over decades, his publishing company has released some 500 million fundamentalist evangelical "Chick tracts" warning of the eternal consequences of a life lived without salvation.

One of these cautionary cartoon gospels, "Somebody Goofed," attracted the attention of animator-directors Syd and Rodney a decade ago -- and they transformed it into the mixed media pastiche presented to you, dear viewer, today. (Running Time: 8:12)

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Moving this video to Trancecoach's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

OH to *beg for a little attention in *begger's canyon is to burn in a lake of fire.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Trancecoach.

Jack Chick is a raving lunatic whose faith is the fringe kind of Christianity all people can be repulsed by.

This is the guy who thinks that telling the kids about the tooth fairy and Santa Claus will drive them to serial murder and death row.
This is the idiot who thinks that Dungeons and Dragons leads to Satanism.
This is the guy who misrepresents evolution in every possible way.
This is the guy who will write and distribute comics about little boys getting tossed into the eternal flame.
This is the jerk who insults every religion and portrays their followers as violent, rude bigots. Finally, this is the guy who sees the need to rewrite some of his comics for black audiences and make every character black.

Anything Jack Chick should not be supported, since we'd just encourage his brand of lunacy.

^While all that you say may be true (albeit a bit embellished) about this (granted) lunatic, this 8 minute film debuted at the DFILM Digital Film Festival in San Francisco on November 7, 1997 to which it received some wild responses. DFILM founder Bart Cheever tells Boing Boing TV reported, "People really loved it or really, really hated it. Religious people called it blasphemous and threatened to organize boycotts of our shows. Anti-religious people called it religious propaganda and wrote angry letters to theater owners where we screened the festival."

Anything that provokes THAT level of reaction deserves some attention! *requeue

*beg

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Trancecoach.

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