From CNN.com:

Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott, New York. He was 76.

"He had a stroke," Hart's wife, Bobby, said Sunday. "He died at his storyboard."

I never counted myself as a fan of Johnny Hart's work - B.C. was always 'too religious' for me, which seemed to smack of false advertising from a comic set in (and named after) the period before Jesus' birth - but I can't ignore that many of my earliest fond memories of reading the comics page on visits to my grandparents' house included Hart's work. He lived his life creating the work that he wanted to, was able to provide for himself and his family while doing so, and was allowed to continue on right up to the day he died. I have to give him some respect for that, and to that end, I say 'Nice job, Johnny Hart.' Good luck and godspeed.

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