Fred Carter is an artist best known for his work for Jack Chick

Jack Chick

Jack Thomas Chick is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books...

's tracts since 1972. Like his employer, he is very reclusive and little is known about his personal life. He is an African-American, and Chick has described him as being a pastor

Pastor

The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....

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Carter uses richly detailed shading in his art. He worked anonymously

Anonymity

Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.There are many reasons why a...

 for Chick Publications, until Chick acknowledged Carter's work in a 1980 issue of his newsletter Battle Cry. The two collaborated on Chick's 2001 film

2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

 The Light of the World

The Light of the World (film)

The Light of the World is a 2003 slideshow film by Jack T. Chick depicting events from the Bible through 360 oil paintings by Fred Carter.Chick was inspired to use still images and narration after seeing the Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War....

, presenting Bible stories through oil painting

Oil painting

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...

s by Carter.

Carter is currently reworking numerous tracts, drawn originally by both himself and Chick alike, for African-American audiences. Reworked tracts appear alongside Chick's new work.

An interview with Carter appears in Kurt Kuersteiner's 2008 documentary God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.

Comic books

• The Big Betrayal (the Lincoln assassination, 1981)
• The Crusaders (series of 18 comic books featuring a black and white Christian duo, 1974 to 2008)
• Jonah (Jonah and the whale, 1994)
• King of Kings (the Bible in pictures, 1980)

Original tracts

• "Allah Had No Son" (1994)
• "Apes, Lies and Ms. Henn" (2004)
• "Back From The Dead" (1982)
• "Bad Bob!" (1983, rev. 1999)
• "The Big Spender" (1982)
• "The Contract" (1976)
• "Dark Dungeons" (1984)
• "The Deceived" (1990)
• "Doom Town" (redrawn version, 1991)
• "First Jaws" (1985)
• "Frame Up" (1972)
• "The Gay Blade" (1972)
• "Going Home" (1991)
• "Going to the Dogs" (1992)
• "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1987)
• "Hi There" (1975)
• "Hit Parade" (1979)
• "Holocaust" (1984)
• "How to Get Rich" (1978)
• "Kings of the East" (1975)
• "The Last Generation" (1972)
• "The Letter" (1982)
• "Li'l Susy" (2003)
• "The Little Bride" (2004)
• "Lisa" (1984)
• "Love the Jewish People" (1976)
• "Macho!" (1982)
• "Miss Universe" (1987)
• "The Only Hope" (1985)
• "The Present" (1993)
• "Reverend Wonderful" (1982)
• "Room 310" (1973)
• "Satan's Master" (1986)
• "Sin Busters" (1991)
• "The Sissy" (1978)
• "Soul Story" (1977)
• "The Story Teller" (1985)
• "That Crazy Guy!" (1980, rev. 1992)
• "Titanic" (1983)
• "The Traitor" (1990)
• "The Tycoon" (1993)
• "Unforgiven?" (2007)
• "The Visitors" (1984)
• "The Wicked Magistrate" (1989)

Reworked tracts

• "Fame" (2006)--new version of "The Star" (2006)
• "Free at Last!" (2007)--new version of "Set Free!" (2007)
• "Hard Times" (2006)--new version of "Somebody Loves Me" (1972)
• "It's Your Life!" (2006)--new version of "This Was Your Life!" (2002)
• "Oops!" (2008)--new version of "Somebody Goofed" (2002)
• "Soul Sisters" (2006)--new version of "Best Friend" (1996)
• "Who Is Allah?" (2006)--new version of "Allah Had No Son" (1994)
• "Who Loves You?" (2006)--new version of "A Love Story" (2002)

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