Comments on: Jack Hamm Religious Cartoons

Jack Hamm Religious Cartoons

Otis — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:57:13 -0800

Jack Hamm Religious Cartoons. Hamm's art instruction books, including Cartooning the Head and Figure, have been widely influential among a generation of illustrators, Simpson's creator Matt Groening among them. Hamm began his cartooning career in the late 1930s and founded "The Jack Hamm Show," one of the first television art programs, which aired in the Dallas, Houston and Waco, Texas, TV markets.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:02:38 -0800

Very interesting stuff - some of it is very poignant. Much better than Chick's work. Definitely not as campy. ...oh look...he's been reading metafilter...

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:08:59 -0800

I want to see under the banner, if you know what I mean.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:12:25 -0800

Stuff like this always makes me sad, in a variety of ways.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:20:10 -0800

I just can't good whisky like the stuff in his cartoons.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:35:36 -0800

That atheists monster rocks. All hail Atheist Monster!

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:43:51 -0800

Giant, sunglasses-wearing, godless gorillas. That's atheism, all right.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:09:15 -0800

I have this book. Not bad, quite detailed in places, and comically dated. I had no notion of his religious work. Makes me want to disavow my agnosticism and become an atheist, just to be a gorilla.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:12:32 -0800

I found the panel of the Chick work I could never forget. Ummm nice!

By: AJD

AJD — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:28:24 -0800

Some of it I actually really like, some of it well is hilariously black and white. But at least he cleared this whole mess up for us: Creation vs Evolution

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:50:34 -0800

Is it just me, or are those terrible and clumsy editorial-style cartoons?

By: Decani

Decani — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:50:57 -0800

Mmm. Fucked-up religious bigot draws quite well. I once saw a monkey that could dance.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:43:22 -0800

Whoa. For a minute I thought you said Jack Ham. *whew*

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:53:34 -0800

I have his book, too. Two pages of noses, people! NOSES!!!

By: Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:14:03 -0800

I wouldn't call him a bigot, though he does have his religious views. Rather striking, I must say.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:39:44 -0800

Thanks for the link, Otis. I'm gonna swipe that ape picture.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:10:14 -0800

I like my Ham and my cartoons Danish.

By: 6am

6am — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:03:26 -0800

But at least he cleared this whole mess up for us: Creation vs Evolution Now I know! Its so obvious when it's spelled out like that.