B.C. by Johnny Hart

Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning "B.C." comic strip appears in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, has died of a stroke at his home in upstate Endicott.

He was 76.

"He died at his storyboard," Hart's wife, Bobby, said yesterday.

"B.C.," populated by cavemen and dinosaurs, was launched in 1958 and eventually reached an audience of 100 million.

Johnny Hart’s classic strip, "B.C." puts a caveman twist on everything. From philosophical ants to punny bits of unconventional wisdom, a favorite for so many years.