Jack Thomas Chick (April 13, 1924-2016) is an American publisher, writer and comic book creator, and has been called the most published comic book author in the world. His company, Chick Publications, claims to have sold over 750 million comic book-style tracts (known as Chick Tracts), comic books, videos, books, and posters designed to promote Protestant evangelism from a fundamentalist point of view. Many of these are controversial, as they target beliefs and cultures in what many perceive as a negative manner.