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I always got a kick out of B.C., it was a staple for years, in the Arizona Republic (that I delivered as a kid) and for a good while here in Nashville's Pravda. They dropped the cartoon strip some years back. I always wondered why.

Johnny Hart, an Endicott native whose collection of cartoon cave-dwellers amused and sometimes irritated newspaper readers for almost 50 years, died at his Nineveh home on Saturday. He was 76.

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Hart's B.C. comic strip was launched in 1958 and eventually appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide with an audience of 100 million. He lent his characters to promote many local agencies and activities, including the Broome Dusters hockey team, BC Transit, Broome County Parks and the professional golf tournament which became the B.C. Open.

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Later in his career, some of Hart's cartoons addressed religious themes -- a reflection of his own deepening Christian faith -- which dismayed some readers and delighted others.

There you go. Uncomfortable with the religious message, I suppose.



Here's the final B.C., the Easter Edition. Very appropriate...





R. I. P. B. C.

h/t Kim & Her Friends

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