Mike Lynch Cartoons: Fred Carter 1938

Spiritual comic e book artist Fred Carter passed absent on Might 8, 2022 at the age of 83. 

Ideal recognized for his long affiliation with the Jack Chick spiritual tracts, or religious comedian textbooks, Jack’s work was commonly unsigned. He worked for Jack Chick from the 1970s till his death. 

Some quotes through DailyCartoonist:

From the Jack Chick Tract Museum Fb webpage:

It
is our unfortunate obligation to report that Fred Carter, the phenomenal artist who
drew a lot of of Chick’s tracts and all of The Crusaders comedian guides (as
well as nearly 360 paintings for the “The Light-weight of the World” movie)
handed away nowadays from a lingering health issues. Fred was also a minister as
effectively as an artist… He labored for Chick from the early 1970s up until eventually his
loss of life.

From Christianity These days:

He was the close collaborator of Jack Chick, pioneer of the common
evangelistic cartoons identified as Chick Tracts. According to Christian
Comics Intercontinental, much more than 50 % of Chick Tracts ended up drawn by Carter.

His daily life improved in the early 1970s when a friend at
church confirmed him a little something he experienced picked up in Chicago: a Chick Tract.
It was most very likely This Was Your Everyday living or A Demon’s Nightmare,
the most well known two titles from the recently founded Chick Publications.
Nevertheless the style was wildly diverse than Carter’s—with merely drawn,
a little shaded figures—the 32- or 33-year-previous Christian artist felt a
thrill of recognition.

“I experienced constantly wanted to use artwork in a Christian location,”
he afterwards mentioned. “I noticed it and it amazed me mainly because that is what I
normally desired to do.”

Carter despatched Chick a letter and some of his artwork. He
moved to California in 1972 and started off drawing tracts. A enterprise photo
from the next year displays a staff of 19 persons. Carter was the only
Black person.

“Carter had genuine chops as a draftsman, fashion perception, & an eye for
drama,” Fred Sanders, theology professor at Biola College, wrote on
Twitter. “His output was so totally aligned with, & carried along
by, Jack Chick’s personal job that I just cannot notify a little bit of change in
their theologies.”