Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 17, 2024

I detect a conclusion coming up very soon, like maybe one more week of this, possibly?…

Good morning™, everyone!

I wonder why Gabriel is sending his compositor home early. There’s something Gabriel wants to do secretly?

I wonder if Cherry and Sarah have made it to the “Fata and Rikki Comune for Ladies of Criminal Persuasion” yet.

Good morning™, Dismissed Compositors !

He has the look of a man chained to his work …. Literally !

firestrike is advised to check his ovipositer for lino ink residue. ;-p

Looks like Gabriel may be planning to air all of TracyVille’s dirty laundry as a parting gesture on his way out of town. He’s about to learn, though, hand-operated 19th century technology isn’t built for speed.

3 guesses the first 2 don’t count, been a while since I heard that expression!

OMG, a Linotype machine! And it’s being used! The only one I’ve ever seen ws on display in the foyer of a newspaper.

All I can say is, “ETAOIN SHRDLU!”

You better starts running yourself fatso. Running harder for you than for him. Haw haw.

And not tells me fatso is gets away too. Lotsa crooks is gets away these days and Tracy n co ends up looking like incompetent imbeciles in the end.

One last chance to get $1.25 a broadsheet!

I just observed. The wrist communicators, are the 70s model now. Interesting!

Off the beam again, when they say Borden, why do I think of Elsie the cow?! (Sorry guys, must be the heat!)

Sam and Dick are getting ready to close in .

Dick Tracy. He hads smartywatch long before anyone else was has em.

Enid,Oklahoma was the town that Big Frost passed himself off as the Sheriff of in 1948 so he could get into a police convention and kill brilliant.

There actually is such a town, and the NY TIMES recently said it costs more to insure your home there than anyplace else in the United States.

Big Frost is dead, but can we blame him anyway?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Chief Rotten Eagle never gets lost. Sometimes not know where is, but no lost”.

Buster Keaton—PAJAMA PARTY—1964

Too hurried in Panel 1—Tracy looks pretty raggedy.Sam great in Panel 2,though.

Will o ur villain be defeated by the slowness of a linotype machine, compared to the speed of modern machinery?

While you’re at it, bring Rupert Murdoch in for questioning

I’d be more kind towards the linotype operator. Pressmen who know how to operate that piece of history, aren’t that common anymore.

Wow! LOVE the first panel with Tracy. Great image! Wish it didn’t have the “guest writer” box over the drawing. shucks!

Am I supposed to know those names?

1- DT: Well, as luck ALWAYS has it, I’ve solved the case by just being in the right place at the right time. Great work ME!

2- SAM: Tracy? Is that you in there? How’d you get in there? How am I able to even lift my arm with 200 pounds of prime man-meat on my wrist? I’m so confused…

3- FATTY BELTBUCKLE: I have sensed that Tracy has had one of his ridiculous epiphanies that would lead to my immediate arrest if I wasn’t one step ahead of him. Now put the linotype in your car and we’ll continue to publish from there. Being mobile will mean that Tracy will never know our location! Oh – and your passenger seat is now my office.

Is he bringing in Burgess Meredith to do some typing

It’s interesting, some days I get less than 20 views, and some days I get over 400. I wonder if I’m posting the videos differently.

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Gocomics has now disabled comments on all the political comics. There are a couple of sentences in Gocomics’ announcement that should be of interest to all of us. I highlighted them in bold:

As of July 17, 2024, GoComics will no longer offer commenting on political cartoons. Our goal is to foster an engaged, thoughtful community. However, maintaining a respectful environment has become increasingly difficult given the divisive nature of certain topics and the tendencies of some to provoke controversy as the 2024 election approaches.

On top of this, GoComics uses an outdated commenting tool that lacks the capability to effectively moderate the comments and ensure compliance with the site’s commenting policy.

Given these circumstances, we’ve made the difficult decision to remove commenting from political cartoons. This is likely not a permanent measure— we hope to reinstate comments in 2025 with an improved commenting platform.

So there will be a major overhaul of the comments boards in about 6 months.

I think Colonel Sanders is about to fry a chicken !

Wow…linotype. I entered journalism just as linotype was ending. The Chinese-language newspapers in New York used them for their printing. The machines had both Chinese characters and English letters.

ETAOINSHRDLU.

The order of the linotype keyboard. That’s the order letters most commonly appear in English words.

And a big f at QUERT YIUOP to you,too!!

A casual remark that her name, “van Duivel”, is Dutch for “from/of [the] devil”.Typical of storytelling to move up the payoff instead of abandoning it and running.

“Start up the car Roscoe, and put Flash in the backseat! I’m not having that dog in my lap!” screams the definitely not Boss Hogg villain of the story. Hopefully, we get a shot of the two conspirators in Daisy Dukes.