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Dick Tracy Notes, 8/17/2024
a year ago
General
A Peek Into My Mind. Be Afraid.
In the 7th installment of the tango-related Minit Mystery, the testimony of the key witness (the cleaning lady at the tango establishment) concludes. She returned to the establishment with a Buenos Aires police officer, only to find "Milonga," the great tango dancer, dead, and with a gun next to him.
Art (including great camera angle) by Leo Batic
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2024/08/17
Art (including great camera angle) by Leo Batic
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2024/08/17
RocketT.Coyote
~rockett.coyote
I just rediscovered the old Dick Tracy cartoon series. Getting re-acquainted with such forgotten characters as Hemlock Holmes, Joe Jitsu, Heap O'Calories, and Go Go Gomez.
EOCostello
~eocostello
OP
Chester Gould mostly disowned that cartoon series (you can read about his views in the recent collected strips volumes). Played for laughs, quite unlike the actual strip. My main beef with it relates to its ties to UPA, a cartoon studio I don't like.
RocketT.Coyote
~rockett.coyote
Yeah. UPA was minimalist style and favored by Chuck Jones.
EOCostello
~eocostello
OP
Well, UPA actively denigrated the Warner Bros. cartoon studio for a variety of reasons, and pushed their own high-brow offerings, only to go down the road of continuing series (Magoo, McBoing-Boing) that WB did. And Jones, arguably, was doing that minimalist stuff *before* UPA had started full blast.
Major Matt Mason
~marmelmm
Perfesser-Bear
~perfesser-bear
"He's dead, Jim!"
