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On Holy Saturday, 2007, cartoonist Johnny Hart died of a stroke while working at his drawing

table.

Hart was the award-winning creator of the popular comic strips, The Wizard of Id, and

BC, and at one time reached 100 million readers every day worldwide.

And in 1999, Breakpoint Commentary Chuck Colson identified Hart as, quote,

the most widely read Christian of our time, with more readers than CS Lewis, Frank

Peretti, and Billy Graham combined.

Raising a moderately religious home, Hart's faith became more serious around 1984, when

a born-again father-son team installed a satellite dish in his home.

And his faith became more evident in his comic strips not long after that.

According to Hart, quote, it started out like when Christmas would roll around if a holiday

comes up, I do something about the holiday.

I've been doing that for the life of the strip, end quote.

While my view, Hart was always at his best around Easter time.

In fact, his most controversial strip of all time was published in Easter of 2001 and

featured a Jewish menorah.

As the panels progressed, the seven candles of the menorah burn out.

Each one captioned by the seven last words of Jesus from the cross.

After the final candle is extinguished, caption with Jesus' words, it is finished, the arms

of the menorah break off and leave a cross.

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