My brother and I grew up sitting in our father's lap on Sunday mornings while he read Dick Tracy to us, along will all the others.
Years later, in the mid 60's I was working as an illustrator for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin). They hired an illustrator from Chicago by the name of Dick Locher and we became good friends. He assisted Chester Gould with the Dick Tracy strip in the 50's.
This clip from your wikipedia link brought back many memories:
Rick Fletcher died in 1983 and was succeeded by editorial cartoonist Dick Locher, who had assisted Gould on the strip in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Locher was assisted by his son John, who died in 1986.
In 1992, following a financial reorganization of their comic strip holdings, Max Allan Collins was fired from the strip, and Tribune staff writer and columnist Mike Kilian took over the writing. Kilian, according to various sources, was paid less than half of what Collins was making per strip, and continued on the strip until his death on October 27, 2005. Since January 9, 2006, Dick Locher has been receiving sole credit on the strip, meaning he is now drawing and authoring the storyline. |
