44-580: JTC may mean: Jack Chick JTC Corporation of Singapore ISO/IEC JTC 1 , Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Japanese Touring Car Championship Jewish Trust Corporation , a body formed to pursue claims for the restitution of heirless property taken during
88-432: A Chick Publications comic book was the source of a Rapid City, South Dakota police detective's presentation on the history of Satanism given in 1989, and describes him as "easily the least reputable source of reliable information on religious groups". Six of Chick's full-size comics feature Alberto Rivera , specifically: Alberto , Double Cross , The Godfathers , The Force , Four Horsemen , and The Prophet . Rivera
132-495: A home for his family. The real estate agent told him that he could not sell to Mexicans, and Roybal's first act as councilman was to protest racial discrimination and to create a community that represented inter-racial politics in Boyle Heights. (Bernstein, 224). This Latino-Jewish relationship shaped politics in that when Antonio Villaraigosa became mayor of Los Angeles in 2005, "not only did he have ties to Boyle Heights, but he
176-504: A life-threatening health emergency sometime between 2003 and 2005. He said, "My flu turned into pneumonia, my blood sugar dropped to 20 (I am diabetic)... I was going into a coma. My wife called 911 and while they were on the way, I had a heart attack. A day or so later I had to undergo a triple bypass." Chick had limited personal contact with the public; he gave only one known professional interview after 1975. The lack of available public information about him created some speculation that he
220-503: A loan from his credit union . He published his second tract, A Demon's Nightmare , in 1962. He decided to create more tracts and began "using his kitchen table as an office and art studio". Christian bookstores were reluctant to accept the tracts, but they were popular among missionaries and churches. He officially established Chick Publications in 1970 in Rancho Cucamonga, California . Initially, Chick wrote and illustrated all of
264-435: A small settlement of relocated Tongva refugees from the village of Yaanga in 1845. The villagers were relocated to this new site known as Pueblito after being forcibly evicted from their previous location on the corner Alameda and Commercial Street by German immigrant Juan Domingo (John Groningen), who paid Governor Pío Pico $ 200 for the land. On August 13, 1846, Commodore Stockton 's forces captured Los Angeles for
308-609: A sociology professor of Furman University at the time, showed Chick's strong anti-Catholic themes in a 2007 American Sociological Association presentation and in a peer-reviewed article the next year in Religion and American Culture . Chick responded to these accusations by saying that he was opposed to the Roman Catholic Church as a sociopolitical organization, but not to its individual members. On his "Roman Catholicism FAQ", Chick said he began publishing his theories about
352-676: A subdivision in the hills on the eastern bank of the Los Angeles River that centered on Prospect Park. From 1889 through 1909 the city was divided into nine wards. In 1899 a motion was introduced at the Ninth Ward Development Association to use the name Boyle Heights to apply to all the highlands of the Ninth Ward, including Brooklyn Heights and Euclid Heights. XLNT Foods had a factory making tamales here early in their history. The company started in 1894, when tamales were
396-651: A tight unity between the two communities. The two groups helped to elect Edward R. Roybal to the City Council over Councilman Christensen; with the help from the Community Service Organization (CSO). In order for Roybal to win a landslide victory over Christensen, "the JCRC, with representation from business and labor leaders, associated with both Jewish left traditions, had become the prime financial benefactor to CSO .. labor historically backed incumbents ... [and]
440-557: Is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California , located east of the Los Angeles River . It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano / Mexican American communities, and is home to cultural landmarks like Mariachi Plaza and events like the annual Día de los Muertos celebrations. Historically known as Paredón Blanco ( Spanish for "White Bluff") during Mexican rule, what would become Boyle Heights became home to
484-760: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jack Chick Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924 – October 23, 2016) was an American cartoonist and publisher, best known for his fundamentalist Christian " Chick tracts ". He expressed his perspective on a variety of issues through sequential-art morality plays . Many of his tracts accused Roman Catholics , Freemasons , Muslims , and many other groups of murder and conspiracies. His comics have been described by Robert Ito, in Los Angeles magazine, as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing ". Chick's views have been spread mostly through
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#1733086184860528-768: The Crusader comics series, which follows the stories of two fundamentalist Christians and addresses topics such as the occult , Bible prophecy , and the theory of evolution . Chick Publications also distributes "Chick tracts", small comic tracts with religious messages. Most of these can be viewed in their entirety on the company's website. The most popular Chick tract is "This Was Your Life!". It has been translated into around 100 languages, and many other tracts are available in widely spoken languages such as Arabic , German, Spanish, and Tagalog . Several of Chick's tracts have been translated into less widely-spoken languages as Blue Hmong , Huichol , Ngiemboon , Tshiluba , and
572-677: The Mirror Enterprises Co. in Los Angeles area newspapers. After converting to Christianity, Chick wanted to evangelize others, but he was too shy to talk to people directly about religion. Chick heard from missionary Bob Hammond, who had broadcast in Asia on the Voice of America , that the Chinese Communist Party had gained significant influence among ordinary Chinese in the 1950s through
616-893: The Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater on a two-year scholarship. In February 1943, during World War II, Chick was drafted as a private into the U.S. Army . He served for three years in the Pacific theater , serving in New Guinea , Australia, the Philippines , and Japan working in cryptography . Although he did not see combat, "almost all" of the fellow servicemen he befriended were killed in action , and many of them engaged in activities such as visiting brothels. Chick credited his time overseas for inspiring him to translate his tracts into many different languages and said that he had "a special burden for missions and missionaries". After
660-558: The 2000 census: The emergence of Latino politics in Boyle Heights influenced the diversity in the community. Boyle Heights was a predominantly Jewish community with "a vibrant, pre-World War II, Yiddish -speaking community, replete with small shops along Brooklyn Avenue, union halls, synagogues and hyperactive politics ... shaped by the enduring influence of the Socialist and Communist parties" before Boyle Heights became predominantly associated with Mexicans/Mexican Americans. The rise of
704-647: The Central Health Center in Downtown Los Angeles , serving Boyle Heights. The United States Postal Service 's Boyle Heights Post Office is located at 2016 East 1st Street. The Social Security Administration is located at 215 North Soto Street Los Angeles, CA 90033 1-800-772-1213 Boyle Heights is home to four stations of the Los Angeles Metro Rail , all served by the E Line : Just 5% of Boyle Heights residents aged 25 and older had earned
748-567: The Cold War struggle for the hearts and minds of minority workers also influenced the larger political dynamic". In the 1947 election, Edward Roybal lost, but Jewish community activist Saul Alinsky and the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) garnered support from Mexican Americans to bring Roybal to victory two years later 1949. (Bernstein, 243) When Roybal took office as city councilman in 1949, he experienced racism when trying to buy
792-635: The First Street Corridor into Boyle Heights in the early 1910s. Boyle Heights became Los Angeles’s largest residential communities of Japanese immigrants and Americans, apart from Little Tokyo. In the 1920s and 1930s, Boyle Heights became the center of significant churches, temples, and schools for the Japanese community. These include the Tenrikyo Junior Church of America, the Konko Church, and
836-626: The Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple; all designed by Yos Hirose. The Japanese Baptist Church was built by the Los Angeles City Baptist Missionary Society. A hospital, also designed by Hirose, opened in 1929 to serve the Japanese American community. By the 1920s through the 1960s, Boyle Heights was racially and ethnically diverse as a center of Jewish , Mexican and Japanese immigrant life in
880-641: The Nazi regime James Trademore, a fictional character from Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight nicknamed "JTC" Bauru-Arealva Airport in Brasil ( IATA code ) James T. Cotton, an alias of American musician Dabrye Jumping to conclusions Juventus Training Center (Vinovo) , an Italian football facility in Vinovo, 14 kilometres from the city of Turin Juventus Training Center (Turin) , an Italian football facility in
924-472: The Roman Catholic Church because "he loves Catholics and wants them to be saved through faith in Jesus". In the wake of Jack Chick's death, a biography, You Don't Know Jack: The Authorized Biography of Christian Cartoonist Jack T. Chick by David W. Daniels, was published by Chick Publications in 2017. The book contains a number of previously unpublished photographs of Chick. Boyle Heights Boyle Heights
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#1733086184860968-830: The United States with no resistance. Under American rule, the Indigenous were relocated, and the Pueblito site was razed to the ground in 1847. The destruction of Pueblito was reportedly approved by the Los Angeles City Council and largely displaced the final generation of the villagers, known as Yaangavit, into the Calle de los Negros ("street of the dark ones") district. The area was renamed for Andrew Boyle , an Irishman born in Ballinrobe , who purchased 22 acres (8.9 ha) on
1012-480: The bluffs overlooking the Los Angeles River after fighting in the Mexican–American War for $ 4,000. Boyle established his home on the land in 1858. In the 1860s, he began growing grapes and sold the wine under the "Paredon Blanc" name. His son-in-law William Workman served as early mayor and city councilman and also built early infrastructure for the area. To the north of Boyle Heights was Brooklyn Heights,
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1100-696: The comics himself, but in 1972 he hired another artist to illustrate many of the tracts. Fred Carter illustrated tracts anonymously until 1980, when he was identified in an issue of Chick's newsletter Battle Cry . Carter also painted the oil paintings seen in The Light of the World , a film Chick produced that related the Christian gospel. Chick Publications released at least 23 full-size "Chick comics" since its founding. They are full-color comic books, and most were first published between 1974 and 1985. The first eleven form
1144-534: The community was Hispanic and Latino. The community had Mexican Americans , Mexican immigrants, and Central American ethnic residents. Hector Tobar of the Los Angeles Times said, "The diversity that exists in Boyle Heights today is exclusively Latino". Latino communities These were the ten cities or neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of Latino residents , according to
1188-561: The community. In 1961, the construction of the East LA Interchange began. At 135 acres in size, the interchange is three times larger than the average highway system, even expanding at some points to 27 lanes in width. The interchange handles around 1.7 million vehicles daily and has produced one of the most traffic congested regions in the world as well as one of the most concentrated pockets of air pollution in America. This resulted in
1232-467: The constructed language of Esperanto . Chick is known for his conspiratorial views and his belief that secret groups, such as the Illuminati, exert influence on the world to advance evil. In "The Broken Cross," Chick introduces John Todd , a former grand druid priest who claims that secret groups, including witches and the Illuminati, are working to advance evil. Chick's version of Christianity emphasizes
1276-539: The development of Boyle Heights, a multicultural, interethnic neighborhood in East Los Angeles whose celebration of cultural difference has made it a role model for democracy. In 2017, some residents were protesting gentrification of their neighborhood by the influx of new businesses, a theme found in the TV series Vida and Gentefied , both set in the neighborhood. As of the 2000 census, there were 92,785 people in
1320-607: The distribution of small comic books. Chick also began working with a prison ministry and created a flip chart of illustrations to use with his presentation. He hit upon the idea of creating witnessing tracts, which could be given to people directly or indirectly. While working for the AstroScience Corporation (a maker of tape recorders and avionics for the U.S. government) in El Monte, California , he self-published his first tract, Why No Revival? in 1960. He paid for it with
1364-407: The early 20th century, and also hosted significant Yugoslav , Armenian , African-American and Russian populations. Bruce Phillips, a sociologist who tracked Jewish communities across the United States, said that Jewish families left Boyle Heights not because of racism, but instead because of banks redlining the neighborhood (denying home loans) and the construction of several freeways through
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1408-507: The most popular ethnic food in Los Angeles. The company is the oldest continuously operating Mexican food brand in the United States, and one of the oldest companies in Southern California. In the early 1910s, Boyle Heights was one of the only communities that did not have restricted housing covenants that discriminated against Japanese and other people of color. The Japanese community of Little Tokyo continued to grow and extended to
1452-441: The neighborhood, which was considered "not especially diverse" ethnically, with the racial composition of the neighborhood at 94.0% Latino , 2.3% Asian , 2.0% White (non-Hispanic), 0.9% African American , and 0.8% other races. The median household income was $ 33,235, low in comparison to the rest of the city. The neighborhood's population was also one of the youngest in the city, with a median age of just 25. As of 2011, 95% of
1496-632: The role of Satan and his minions, portraying them as the principal evils in his comic. He sees Satan as the one behind all major events, including biblical occurrences like Adam and Eve and the Great Flood, as part of his ongoing battle for control. In this worldview, God's actions are seen as reactions to the Devil's actions, creating a dynamic game between the two sides for the fate of humanity. Wiccan author Kerr Cuhulain has described Chick and his theories as being " anti-feminist " and "anti- Pagan ", noted that
1540-471: The socialist and communist parties increased the people's involvement in politics in the community because the "liberal-left exercised great influence in the immigrant community". Even with an ever-growing diversity in Boyle Heights, "Jews remained culturally and politically dominant after World War II". Nevertheless, as the Jewish community was moving westward into new homes, the largest growing group, Latinos,
1584-458: The tracts and, more recently, online. His company, Chick Publications , says it has sold over 750 million tracts , comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Evangelical Protestantism from a Christian fundamentalist perspective. They have been translated into more than 100 languages. Chick was an Independent Baptist who followed a dispensationalist view of the End Times . He
1628-559: The tracts to be pulled from the market and corrected. In the early 1980s, Chick's stance on Catholicism led some Christian bookstores to stop stocking his tracts, and he withdrew from the Christian Booksellers Association after the association considered expelling him. Christianity Today described Chick as an example of "the world of ordinary, nonlearned evangelicals", for whom "atavistic anti-Catholicism remains as colorful and unmistakable as ever". Michael Ian Borer,
1672-512: The war, he returned to the Pasadena Playhouse, where he met his future wife while working on a production there. Lola Lynn Priddle (1926–1998), a Canadian immigrant, came from a very religious family, and Chick said that she was "instrumental in his salvation ". Priddle and her parents introduced Chick to the Charles E. Fuller radio show The Old-Fashioned Revival Hour , and Chick said that he
1716-418: Was converted while listening to an episode of this show. Chick and Priddle married in 1948. They had one child, a daughter named Carol, who died in 1998 from surgery complications. In February 1998, Priddle died. The widower Chick remarried to an Asian woman whose name has been variously reported as Susie and Susy. In a 2005 issue of his company's newsletter, Battle Cry , Chick reported that he had
1760-552: Was a believer in the King James Only movement , which posits that every English translation of the Bible more recent than 1611 promotes heresy or immorality. Chick was born in the neighborhood of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, and later moved with his family to Alhambra . There Chick was active in the high school drama club. According to Chick, he was not religious in high school. After graduation, he continued his drama education at
1804-463: Was a pen name for unnamed authors. Chick died in his sleep at age 92. His body was discovered on the evening of October 23, 2016, in his home at Alhambra, California . The interment was private. From 1953 to 1955, Chick drew a single-panel cartoon, whose text was written by P. S. Clayton, titled Times Have Changed? It thematically resembled the B.C. comic strip and The Flintstones animated cartoon, but predated both. These were syndicated by
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1848-602: Was an anti-Catholic religious activist who claimed to have been a Jesuit priest before becoming a Fundamentalist Protestant . Rivera was the source of many of the conspiracy theories about the Vatican and the Jesuits espoused by Jack Chick. Catholic Answers has called Chick "savagely anti-Catholic", describes Chick's statements about the Catholic Church as "bizarre" and "often grotesque in their arguments", and calls for
1892-565: Was elected by replicating the labor-based, multicultural coalition that Congressman Edward Roybal assembled in 1949 to become Los Angeles's first city council member of Latino heritage". Further, the Vladeck Center (named after Borukh Charney Vladeck) contributed to the community of Boyle Heights in a big way because it was not just a building, it was "a venue for a wide range of activities that promoted Jewish culture and politics". The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates
1936-597: Was moving into Boyle Heights because to them this neighborhood was represented as upward mobility. With Jews and Latinos both in Boyle Heights, these men, part of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) — Louis Levy, Ben Solnit, Pinkhas Karl, Harry Sheer, and Julius Levitt — helped to empower the Latinos who either lived among the Jewish people or who worked together in the factories. The combination of Jewish people and Latinos in Boyle Heights symbolized
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