Sin City

Writer/Artist: Jack Chick
Publisher: Chick Publications
Published: 1998

I watched Jesus Camp a few months back. One of the kids in the film was reading a Jack Chick comic, so I felt I'd share another of his comics. I've also been thinking of Frank Miller's Sin City lately. Lo and behold, Jack Chick wrote a strip titled Sin City. But that's about the only element the two have in common.

Jack Chick's Sin City is about a pastor who is protesting homosexuality. Due to his "radical stance", he is nearly beaten to death. While recuperating, he meets a gay priest who harbors a demon, which of course clouds his judgment. After some choice words of wisdom involving Sodom and Gomorrah by the pastor, the demon is excised, and the priest repents his sins. The End.

Not a very uplifting tale, and a bit one sided,...man I don't have the energy to even go into this one. Check the link to read the actual comic...OR... check this link for some tight pants sinning.

The Sissy?

Writer/Artist: Jack Chick
Publisher: Chick Publications
Published: 1978

Jack Chick is the king of Christian comics. That's really all I can say about the guy.

I was given this comic when I was in Calgary at a flea market. The lady that gave it to me seemed extremely happy that I was interested in the comic. She seemed kinda fanatical as well, which I didn't quite like, so I took a few of the comics and left. I've held onto these comics ever since. I fear if I get rid of them I'll be drowned in a burning pool of fire and snakes.

Anyway, The Sissy, is about a tough, dirty unshaven, truck driver. This tough truck driver calls Jesus a sissy after seeing the back of a big rig that says: "Jesus Saves."


The man who owns the big rig with the sign is a bigger, clean shaven, man who invites the tough truck driver to supper.


At dinner the clean shaven truck driver advises that Jesus is the "God-Man" who can defeat anyone (he's God after all), and that he died for our sins, and that he will return soon to clean house (my words, but more or less the basic point).

At this point the dirty unshaven truck driver repents and says Jesus "had more guts than any man that ever lived...and I love him for that!"

Anyone seen The Passion of the Christ? Now that's some intense sh*t. Religion stuff aside, story wise, when you see a dude get tortured and martyred, I don't care who you are, but that is going to affect you. Religion stuff now, I don't think the best way to encourage someone to live a 'better life' is to base one's beliefs on the fact that someone died for you and your sin-ly ways.

But man can that Jack Chick draw eh?

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