Hurray for B.C.

by Johnny Hart

Cartoons depict the humorous adventures of a group of men and women as they try to cope with life in the prehistoric world

Genres: Humor, Comics, Cartoon, Comedy, Graphic Novels

128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

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John Lewis Hart, also known as Johnny Hart, was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator (with Brant Parker) of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips.

Reviews

[Scott]

This collection comes early in the history of the strip, came out in 1963 and was the first collection of Sunday strips – Hart’s in his usual good form here, but the mass market paperback format isn’t ideal for a collection of Sunday strips – they ran the panels for one Sunday’s strip over two pages, so each panel comes out pretty small. Even with Hart’s minimalist style, you wish the pictures were at least a little larger. Nothing’s wrong with the humor, though – Hart’s Sunday strips weren’t much different from his dailies, he’d just stretch them out a bit more.

[Hannah Belyea]

B.C, Peter, Wiley and the rest of their miniature prehistoric civilization are building tools, trying to start a romance, and discover new species in this entertaining collection of short and witty adventures. Hart will get a laugh out of any reader with his sense of humour and enjoyable cast of colourful characters. Can B.C and his friends make it to the next century in one piece?

[blake]

Still looking for a cartoon. Early but after the first few strips. Hart's really hit his stride with visual gags he manages to get across with his minimalistic style.

More dinosaurs, more whimsy.

[Kenneth]

A hilarious collection of early B.C. cartoon strips from the late 1950's and early 1960's.

[Greg]

Still of the earlier books, You can truly see the time warp and this on, from the satire jokes to the lingo used!

[Ronald]

Possibly read in 1981; doing some back tracking

[Herman]

Memories of a cartoon strip. Not sure that I considered so funny back then either.

[Art]

I love it when it makes me laugh out loud!

[Jim]

I remember reading my parent's B.C. paperbacks when I was around 7 or 8 yrs old. I missed some of the humor then, but I loved the books just the same. I got this copy off Ebay, and reading it brought back memories from decades ago.

[The_Mad_Swede]

A charming little collection of Johnny Hart's strip series B.C.. Above all, there is a lot of wit involved in the (rather minimalist) visual presentation.