Editing Jack Chick (section)

==Biography==
Chick was born in the neighborhood of [[Boyle Heights]] in Los Angeles,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiancomicsinternational.org/chick_pioneer.html|title=Jack Chick - Christian Comics Pioneer|website=christiancomicsinternational.org|access-date=June 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517124039/http://www.christiancomicsinternational.org/chick_pioneer.html|archive-date=May 17, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- to what parents? -->and later moved with his family to [[Alhambra, California|Alhambra]]. There Chick was active in the high school drama club.<ref name="Independent">{{Cite journal  | last = Ito  | first = Robert  | title = To Hell With You  | journal = The Independent on Sunday  | date = July 6, 2003 | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030706/ai_n12744201  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070311052253/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030706/ai_n12744201  | url-status = dead  | archive-date = March 11, 2007 }}</ref> According to Chick, he was not religious in high school.<ref name="OfficialBio">{{cite web  | title = Biography of Jack Chick  | publisher = Chick Publications  | url = http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp  | access-date = February 20, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080218025350/http://www.chick.com/information/authors/chick.asp  | archive-date = February 18, 2008 | url-status = live  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref> After graduation, he continued his drama education at the [[Pasadena Playhouse|Pasadena Playhouse School of Theater]] on a two-year scholarship.<ref name=Independent/><ref name=OfficialBio/>

In February 1943, during World War II, Chick was drafted as a private into the [[U.S. Army]].<ref name="NatlArchives">{{cite web  | title = Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938&nbsp;– 1946 (Enlistment Records)  | work = World War II Army Enlistment Records  | publisher = National Archives and Records Administration  | date = September 30, 2002 | url = https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=893&mtch=166&q=&cat=all&tf=F&bc=sl,fd&txt_24995=Chick&op_24995=2&nfo_24995=V,24,1900&sc=24994,24995,24996,24998,24997,24993,24981,24983&rpp=10&sort=24995%20desc&pg=7  | access-date = February 20, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171109074628/https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?dt=893&mtch=166&q=&cat=all&tf=F&bc=sl,fd&txt_24995=Chick&op_24995=2&nfo_24995=V,24,1900&sc=24994,24995,24996,24998,24997,24993,24981,24983&rpp=10&sort=24995%20desc&pg=7  | archive-date = November 9, 2017 | url-status = live  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref> He served for three years in the [[Pacific War|Pacific theater]], serving in [[New Guinea]], Australia, the [[Philippines]], and Japan working in [[cryptography]].<ref name=OfficialBio/> 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.<ref name="YouDontKnowJack">{{cite book |last1=Daniels |first1=David W. |title=You Don't Know Jack: The Authorized Biography of Christian Cartoonist Jack T Chick |chapter=Twice Saved |chapter-url=https://www.chick.com/products/excerpts/books/1443-excerpt.html |publisher=[[Chick Publications]] |date=May 3, 2017 |accessdate=2022-03-10 }}</ref> 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".<ref name=OfficialBio/>

After 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]]".<ref name=OfficialBio/><ref>Ancestry.com, ''Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905–1957'' [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.</ref> Priddle and her parents introduced Chick to the [[Charles E. Fuller (Baptist minister)|Charles E. Fuller]] radio show ''The Old-Fashioned Revival Hour'', and Chick said that he was [[Conversion to Christianity|converted]] while listening to an episode of this show.<ref name=OfficialBio/>

Chick and Priddle married in 1948. They had one child, a daughter named Carol, who died in 1998 from surgery complications.<ref name="TheGuardian">{{cite web|title=Remembering Jack Chick: the Christian cartoonist who tried to save us from hell|website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=October 25, 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/25/jack-chick-christian-comic-cartoonist-death|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200127230408/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/25/jack-chick-christian-comic-cartoonist-death|archive-date=2020-01-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiancomicsinternational.org/chick_pioneer.html|title=Jack Chick}}</ref>

In February 1998, Priddle died.<ref name=OfficialBio/> The widower Chick remarried to an Asian woman whose name has been variously reported as Susie and Susy.<ref name="wp"/><ref name=Independent/><ref name="ThisRock">{{cite news|last=Akin |first=Jimmy |author-link=Jimmy Akin |title=Meet Jack Chick |work=This Rock |publisher=Catholic Answers |date=March 2004 |url=http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/meet-jack-chick |access-date=February 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409021755/http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/meet-jack-chick |archive-date=April 9, 2016 }}</ref>

In a 2005 issue of his company's newsletter, ''Battle Cry'', Chick reported that he had 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."<ref name="BattleCry">{{cite news  | last = Chick  | first = Jack  | title = A Message from Jack Chick  | publisher = Battle Cry  | date = September–October 2005  | url = http://www.chick.com/bc/2005/jtcletters_o.asp  | access-date = February 20, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071015234006/http://www.chick.com/bc/2005/jtcletters_o.asp  | archive-date = October 15, 2007 | url-status = live  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref>

Chick had limited personal contact with the public; he gave only one known professional interview after 1975.<ref>{{cite web  | last = Davis  | first = Scoobie  | title = The Jack T. Chick Documentary  | publisher = Scoobie Davis Online  | date = October 31, 2006 | url = http://scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2006/10/jack-t.html  | access-date = February 20, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070330035054/http://scoobiedavis.blogspot.com/2006/10/jack-t.html  | archive-date = March 30, 2007 | url-status = live  | df = mdy-all  }}</ref> The lack of available public information about him created some speculation that he was a pen name for unnamed authors.<ref name=Independent/> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gates|first1=Anita|title=Jack T. Chick, Cartoonist Whose Tracts Preached Salvation, Dies at 92|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/arts/jack-chick-dead.html|access-date=October 14, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013173616/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/arts/jack-chick-dead.html|archive-date=October 13, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Sherwood|first1=Harriet|title=Jack Chick, controversial Evangelical cartoonist, dies aged 92|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/jack-chick-dies-cartoonist-comic-strips|access-date=October 14, 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044233/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/jack-chick-dies-cartoonist-comic-strips|archive-date=October 15, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

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.<ref name="You Don't Know Jack">{{cite web |title=You Don't Know Jack |url=http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/1443.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429001744/http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/1443.asp |archive-date=April 29, 2017 |access-date=April 27, 2017 |publisher=Chick Publications |df=mdy-all}}</ref>