Johnny Hart

Johnny Hart, actually John Lewis Hart, ( born February 18, 1931 in Endicott, New York, † April 7, 2007 in Nineveh, New York) was an American cartoonist.

After his retirement from the military in 1954, he worked at General Electric and drew alongside comics. He was inspired by his own admission by Charles Schulz. Hart was especially by the comic B.C. known ( in Germany under the title " Neander Valley " ) in the United States. B.C. has been published since February 17, 1958 in daily U.S. newspapers. Hart was also co-author of the comic strip The Wizard of Id ( in Germany under the title of Magnus the Magician ), which was drawn from the 1960s by Brant Parker. At the end of his life he developed a fundamentalist Christian attitude, which earned him some trouble. So he was at Easter 2001 in a BC Cartoon a menorah, which becomes a cross, which indicated Jews as an attack. Hart, who leaves behind his wife and two daughters Bobby, suffered a fatal stroke in his work on the drawing board in New York.

Awards

Hart got the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonist Society and a prize from the International Congress of Comics. In 1992 he also received the German Max and Moritz Prize for his comic series.