R.I.P., Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart died on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

After Hart became an evangelical Christian (a conversion he attributed to a born-again father-and-son team of satellite TV system installers), he began occassionally infusing his strips with overtly religious themes. I appreciated the irony of Christian content appearing in a comic strip called "B.C."

His most famous strip is the one shown above from Easter 2001. It caused great controversy, as illustrated by this parody from the JDL website: