B.C. and Wizard of Id cartoonist dies

A bit of sad news greeted me this morning when I turned on my laptop and logged onto my Google account to view my personalized home page: Johnny Hart, the creator and writer of the popular comic strip B. C. and co-creator of another, The Wizard of Id, has passed away. He had suffered a stroke last Saturday, 07 April, while at his storyboard. He was 76.

Both B. C. and The Wizard of Id were two of my favorite comic strips. Among the many things I enjoyed about B. C. were the humorous word definitions in Wiley's Dictionary. (For example: baker's dozen = 12 of today's and 1 of yesterday's.) How I wish I had faithfully compiled the ones I found really funny. I'll also miss the witty poems the characters would write once in a while. Although it might have put off some readers, I also liked the Christian theme that Hart often incorporated particularly on Christian holy days (like Easter or Christmas). I suppose it's just appropriate that Hart passed away on Holy Saturday so that he can be with his Creator on Easter Sunday.