Most Popular Gospel Tracts

This Was Your Life

Unloved

It's A Deal

Creator or Liar

The Choice

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Awful Truth

The Gospel Theater

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Soul-winners worldwide know that CHICK TRACTS GET READ! The cartoons grab the reader's attention and present the Gospel. Over 100 different titles are available and each one has its own gripping story, ending in an invitation to receive Christ. Chick tracts can help you reach more people!

Chick publications

Chick Publications is the publishing company that Chick created to produce and market his tracts, along with comic books, books, and posters though the best-known products are still the Chick tracts.[2]

While some tracts express views that are generally accepted within Christian theology, e.g. the Incarnation of Christ,[3] other tracts have controversial views and criticisms against cultures, religions and theological concepts. The Southern Poverty Law Center labels the organization as a hate group.[4]

Chick Publications has its headquarters in Rancho Cucamonga,[5] while it has an Ontario, California mailing address. All of Chick Publications' tracts, and several excerpts from his full-length comics, may be read without charge at the Chick website. Many older tracts are out of print; however, Chick Publications will print a minimum 10,000 tract special order of any out-of-print series.

On the company's website they also note that "Our ministry is primarily publishing the gospel tracts of Jack T. Chick, but we do occasionally publish a manuscript in book form."[6] They state that if the content "educates Christians in one of the areas for which we have a tract, we would love to see it" and cite several examples; the online store lists nearly a dozen book categories.[6]
[edit] Style and recurring themes

The tracts typically follow the themes of fear of incurring the wrath of God and suffering an eternity of agonizing punishment, or redemption in the afterlife, or set up a confrontation between an evangelical Christian and a non-Christian or non-evangelical Christian in order to spread a religious message. Most Chick tracts end with either a non-Christian being converted to Christianity or a contrast between those who accept Jesus and those who reject Him; a convert receives entry into heaven, while a non-believer is condemned to hell, in a recycled scene in which God (portrayed as a giant, glowing, faceless figure sitting on a throne) condemns or welcomes a character. In one tract, Things To Come, God appears with a visible face.[7][non-primary source needed]

Several tracts follow a spiritual warfare theme; during scenes of human interaction, the presence of angels and demons manipulating the situation is sometimes revealed to the reader. The actions and conversations of the spiritual beings go unnoticed by the human characters. Additionally, Satan himself has appeared occasionally, portrayed as a devil bearing horns and a beard, and the Grim Reaper, in a black robe and wielding a scythe, is sometimes seen during (or before) a character's death.[citation needed]

Chick tracts end with a suggested prayer for the reader to pray to accept Christ. In most of these tracts it is a standard sinner's prayer for salvation. In the tracts dealing with Catholicism or Islam, the prayer includes a clause to reject these religions. Included with the prayer are directions for converting to Christianity. Occasionally, there is a scene in which Satan tells the reader that there is nothing to worry about, followed by a Christian character warning the reader not to listen to him.[citation needed]

The comics are often drawn simplistically yet effectively, with dialog and thought bubbles present during conversation. Profanity is often used in the words of demons and non-Christians, obscured completely by random punctuation marks.

Strips, Toons, and Bluesies, written by Douglas Bevan Dowd and Todd Hignite, stated that "it's safe to assume Chick saw at least some" Tijuana bibles since the books and, according to Dowd and Hignite, Chick tracts were "strikingly similar" to Tijuana bibles; like Tijuana bibles the tracts mostly targeted youth of lower socioeconomic classes and "were loaded with stereotypes." The book stated that Chick tracts contained "way-out, wild" portrayals of recreational drug usage and portrayed "the sexual revolution," male and female homosexuality and pedophilia. In addition the comics included supernatural elements, occult rituals, torture, and cannibalism.[8]
[edit] Tracts

Chick has written tracts on many different subjects.

Several of them involve the eternal fates of those who accept and reject Christian salvation. His best known tract, This Was Your Life,[9] is one example, telling the story of a man who dies and faces his final judgment before God.