Crackpots & Visionaries Card of the Day!

WFMU's Crackpots & Visionaries trading cards pay tribute to a few of the iconoclastic, free-spirited, and sometimes dangerous souls who have inspired us over the years. We chose from among geniuses and charlatans, saints and homicidal maniacs, from the revered to the reprehensible.

Check this space for a different crackpot or visionary each and every day. There are 70 in all, from artists like Kaz, Drew Friedman, Mary Fleener, Jim Woodring, Charles Burns and many, many more. The cards are also available as card sets in the WFMU catalog.

St. John the Divine
Born: ca. AD 1 Galilee
Died: ca. AD 100, Ephesus(?); cause unknown
Drawn by: Jonathon Rosen
John was one of the original apostles of Jesus, and author of the unimaginatively entitled Gospel of John. He is most notorious for his Book of Revelation, which he wrote on the island of Patmos after eating some bad moussaka. This mad, violent vision of the world's demise and the Second Coming has added to our vocabulary such perennially favorite images as the Whore of Babylon, the Beast with Ten Horns and Seven Crowns, and the of-assigned number "666." John's book has great popularity with born-again Christians and conspiracy theorists of all stripes, who daily scan newspapers for proof that his prophecy is coming to pass. More significantly, the Book of Revelation is responsible for heavy metal music, and no headbanger's library is complete without it.
-- Matty Ostrowski

Here are even more credits!
Crackpots & Visionaries Cards (c) 1992,1994 WFMU, East Orange NJ
All individual card art (c) 1992, 1994 the artists, text (c) 1992, 1994 the authors
HTML Version by Henry Lowengard. Cards digitized by the very patient Wendy Taller

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