Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 31, 2024

Somebody didn’t pay their blackmail money!

Poor Sam, never gets the respect he deserves!

Fabulous writing!!!

Spectacular illustrations!!!

What more could anyone ask for???

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Good morning, (almost) Free Lunches !

I’m glad Tracy remembers because I don’t. If Sam lost the pudge he could be on the cover of Gentlemen’s Quarterly !

Good morning™, all!

“The big parking bureau scandal,” eh? I don’t think that Lee remembers any such scandal and I suppose it was probably only significant to readers of the gossip paper.

“Oh, I remember that scandal. They claimed Martians were paying off parking bureau officials so they could illegally park their space vehicles.”

Bring B. O. back…

A Page 3 girl?

“They were the guys what broke….”— Since when does Sam talk like a B-movie gangster?

More on Lizz and her mascara. Hear what she has to say herself: (remove the spaces and paste link into browser)

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Sam featured prominently today . “The Friends of Sam Catchem” are pleased .

Looks like the masthead mascot of 4T is a top hat with floating monocle. How teddibly ‘Gentleman Ghost’ of them, rawther!

Zzzzz…huh? Whazat? Sandwiches? They’re arresting Wilbur Weston?

Apparently Detective Misty Fying has fulfilled her plot purpose and been pink-slipped. She was last seen drowning her sorrows at Jeers, ‘where nobody knows your name’….

Say what?

Will the publisher of this Enquirer clone help to bury unfavorable stories about certain political candidates, like the actual Enquirer’s publisher did. (Fact. Proven at trial.)

MOVIE QUOTE—

“You’ve obviously never been in an OLIVE GARDEN that runs out of breadsticks!”

THE GARFIELD MOVIE—2024

Somebody was parking dressers all OVER the place. Wooden you know it?

Boy, lots of crime in Tracy’s city!

‘“Ohhh, look. A fold out of Bess Truman in a modestly reveling cutaway dress made of pastrami. Liz, get Tracy and Personnel in here. They really should know about Sam’s latest little fantasy."

Who’s looking up from the floor at our favorite detectives?

Eventually they’ll catch on that this thing is a newspaper like a woodpecker is a carpenter

I’ll leave the writing alone for a day.

Something I find interesting about cartoon work is that the artist isn’t constrained by the same rules as camera angles. Gould would change angles, but not as frequently, often drawing a sequence from the same angle. I like that we often have enhanced visual interest in a strip like today where Charles has switched from one side of the conversation to the other at different elevations without confusing the readers. We’re able to follow drawn stills from one panel to another much easier than we are motion shots that might use the same angles. It’s a tool in the artist’s belt that can be leveraged to add interest to a story and Carlos Magnifico does this well.

Sam looks perplexed……

Sam looks unusually jowly here.

Charles Ettinger, I just realized why I like your rendition of Lizz….she very much reminds me of my ultimate favorite Avenger…JANET VAN DYNE, THE WASP!!

Worst artist ever. I had to study, with great effort, P1…..to determine if that was Tracy or Sam.

…It started late last night…

I get this big gray box at the top of the page and rebooting did not fix it. The viewing area is smaller. Last night I could toggle the page up and down and the gray would go up and out of sight. Now it stays. ? ? ?

See you Monday. Boss Herrod gets his—-again

OT concern: Has anyone heard from or “seen” joshhere? I haven’t seen him here in a bit. Have I overlooked him or is he missing from our funny farm?

In the first panel looks like Clark Kent.