B.C. Rides Again

Johnny Hart (1931-2007) was born and raised in Endicott, New York. Johnny created the comic strips, "B.C." and the "Wizard of Id". Launched in 1958, B.C. was written and drawn by Johnny. With the release of the Wizard of Id in 1964, drawn by cartoonist Brant Parker, Hart became one of only four cartoonists to have two comic strips appearing in over 1000 papers each. Johnny won numerous awards for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society's highest honor, the Reuben award, for B.C. in 1968 and the Wizard of Id in 1984. B.C. was thirty years of age in 1988 when Johnny Hart released this collection of almost a full year of comics. The book states that this strip was being enjoyed by over 100 million readers worldwide and that's a big deal! Over 1,100 newspapers were running this great comic strip. Peanuts and Garfield were reaching more readers worldwide but for pure hipness and pose, B.C. was the best and then there was the rest.