Johnny Hart - Personal Life

Personal Life

Hart was an active member of his local community — the area of Greater Binghamton in Broome County, New York, which shares a common abbreviation of "B.C." Hart donated B.C.-based drawings and logos free of charge to many entities and organizations found in the Broome County area, including logos for:

• B.C. Transit — Caveman on Wheel
• Broome County Parks — Dinosaur
• Broome County Meals on Wheels — Caveman on Wheel with Food
• Southern Tier Red Cross — Caveman building Red Cross with Bricks
• Broome County Celtic Kazoos — Irish Caveman with Kazoo
• B.C. Open PGA Tour Event (1971 – 2006) — Caveman golfing
• Broome Dusters NAHL Hockey Club — Caveman with hockey stick
• B.C. Icemen UHL Hockey Club — Brute Cavemen playing hockey
• Southern Tier Independence Center — Caveman in stone wheelchair stuck in cave doorway, "Wiley" character navigating a landscape full of holes

Hart's involvement with the B.C. Open dates back to the early 1970s, and characters from B.C. are used extensively in advertising and marketing materials for the event, including the winner's trophy which is a bronzed version of a hapless B.C. Caveman golfing, a light-hearted trophy when compared to many others, leading it to earn the designation of being "voted by the players on Tour as the best trophy on Tour; the one that they would love to have."

Additionally, Hart contributed original panels of B.C. strips for charity auctions with the Binghamton, New York-based PBS affiliate, WSKG-TV. He also provided album cover art for the 1999 album Still Fresh by the world-famous jazz vocal group The Four Freshmen, and his strips for B.C. were the inspiration for the mascot of UC Irvine, the anteater.