Saturday, August 21, 2010

Chester Gould
1900 ~ 1985

Dick Tracy is my favorite continuity strip of all time!

Some images from Life Magazine Aug 14, 1944 and
the 1978 show catalog at The Museum of Cartoon Art

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7 comments:

Mark said...

wow! what a post, thanks!

4:12 AM
docdave said...

My very first piece of original art was a watercolor of Tracy sent to me from Chester Gould in 1963. I used to write him constantly. I clipped all the Tracy strips from the Chicago Tribune growing up in Chicago. I have a great Flattop daily on my wall. Thanks Dave!

Cheers!

DocDave

3:29 PM
Tom Ruegger said...

I agree! An awesome post! Love Dick Tracy and the original Rogues Gallery! Thanks so much!

5:09 PM
Jim said...

Many thanks for the Dick Tracy's. I read him in the NY Daily News in the 1960s and 70s. I will always remember the trajectories of bullets which had passed through the heads of bad guys.

I also remember Dick replying to a criminal who demanded his "Constitutional rights"; said Dick, "I'll give you a Constitutional left!" It was a left hook, of course.

In his latter days, Mr. Gould would have his crew stop for a brief prayer, before taking on the villans.

I remember Gould supposedly had a "graveyard" for deceased bad guys in his backyard.

Thanks for the memories.

1:11 AM
Mr. Door Tree said...

And remember...the country that controls magnetism will control the world!

1:18 AM
Mark said...

Dick Tracy has always been one of my favorites. I can recall getting a Dick Tracy toy pistol and detective badge one Christmas when I was five years old.

I can also recall one night when I was maybe eight or nine, being told to wake up because I was having a nightmare. I was told I was saying "Dick Tracy is killing Popeye!" Fortunately, my parents allowed me to continue reading comic books and comic strips, and watching cartoons on TV.

Mark Armstrong

(not the same Mark who posted the comment "wow! what a post")

9:23 PM
Jeff Overturf said...

These are amazing and invaluable to any fan of the strip. One of my top five as well!

Thanks!

9:53 PM

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