Whatever happened to real comics?
I am something of an amateur cartoonist. I had a small comic strip I ran in the local paper when I was in college. (Looking back on it now, it was pretty bad.) I have ran a few single frame "Archer Comics" on this blog, particularly when I was in seminary. I have also been creatively consulted a few times by Darby Conley of Get Fuzzy and Scott Hilburn of The Argyle Sweater . As such, I have been reading through the original Dick Tracy comics, thanks to the hard bound reprintings from IDW publishing. By original, I mean the first 10 years of the comic strip back in the 1930's when Chester Gould created the Dick Tracy idea. The comic still runs today in a shadowy reflection of what it once was, but Gould retired from the strip in 1977. As to the modern Dick Tracy strip, Dick Locher was the artist the last ten years or so, but he retired in January of this year, and has been replaced by Joe Stanton and Mike Curtis, whose current Dick Tracy make-over started last wee...