Johnny Hart — Genius or Crackpot?
Monday, April 9th, 2007Posted by Kevin Forest Moreau
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Johnny Hart, the cartoonist behind the incredibly long-running strip B.C., died Saturday. Shaking Through has long adhered to an unofficial policy of not speaking ill of the departed, so I won’t bash Hart here for the religious proselytizing that drove me from the strip years ago. (The steady decline in quality certainly helped — to be sure, the strip seemed funnier, and not coincidentally less offensive, decades ago.) (more…)