Jack Chick's "Chick Tracts" were a big part of my adolescence as a regular church-goer. There's a lot of variety in his little religious tracts, from sentimental pleas of salvation to bizarre alternate history horror stories. I still like them, for all the reasons I did as a youth - they're fascinatingly personal and they have a very clear agenda, whether you agree with that agenda or not (and his insistence that the Pope is the Anti-Christ makes it hard to agree with his beliefs). Kurt Kuersteiner's 2008 documentary, God's Cartoonist, tries to learn more about the reclusive publisher by talking to his most hardcore devotees.
Sunday Matinee: 'In Search of Steve Ditko'
In our first installment of Sunday Matinee, we've got BBC's 2007 documentary special In Search of Steve Ditko. Host Jonathan Ross, a self-avowed Steve Ditko fanatic, is on a mission to learn more about the reclusive comic artist responsible for characters like Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, The Question, and more.