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Texas Tracts: Joy Ride and Rainbow Collie – The Defiant Charm of Rachelle Meyer’s Religious Parody Continues as the Series Reaches Its Conclusion

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2021

Over the summer at Broken Frontier I took a look at Holy Diver, the first in a series of autobio comics by Rachelle Meyer inspired by the infamous Chick Tracts…

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Texas Tracts: Holy Diver – Rachelle Meyer Subverts the Format of the Notorious Chick Tracts with a Wry Slice-of-Life Appeal

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 5, 2021

Jack Chick’s Chick Tracts – religious mini-comics with a (to say the least) conservative Christian agenda – have been notorious for some decades for their hellfire and damnation-style approach to…

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