Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 12, 2010

Haw, hah, haw, hah! This is hilarious!

I thought Tracy read the letter last week and even Chief Liz called him about the letters. I must be imagining things.

Good morning all!

We must be using ESP, ‘cuz we know what’s next… ‘Morning VB & FlightSuit.

Flight Suit said, “Haw, hah, haw, hah! This is hilarious!”

What did I miss, Flight Suit?

http://kraptastrophe.blogspot.com/2010/04/must-be-from-weirdo.html

**FlightSuit, Ithink your version is probably the correct one!

Flight Suit, your talents are amazing!

Love it..

so we can look forward to another week of reading the letter? I bet on Wednesday Liz will call to tell Tracy the entire department got one too.. err or I could be wrong .

100 People surveyed Top Five answers on the Board !

“Guess what they want ?”

X us to pay our credit card bill

X To Feature me in Striped necktie monthly !

X A donation to the Sam Catchem preservation society

X Me to go stand down at the river walk in Naperville ?

X Us to stop dragging our feet and get to the Mystery night already !

We go forward then back then…sigh.

i before e, except after c. It’s wierdo- not weirdo.

Maybe it’s in code, we’ll see agent Ennen come in to help break it

Don’t forget the last part, WarehouseEyes: “Except sounded as “a”, as in ‘Neighbor’ and ‘Weigh’ ”

This strip is written by

1) two people who don’t talk to each other

2) a schizophrenic

3) an elderly cartoonist with Alzheimers

There are lots of exceptions to the “i before e” rule; for example: either, neither, weird (and thus probably weirdo, also), German words used in English, like zeitgeist, and so on.

if you read the book “How to be a lazy cartoonist ” this makes perfect sense.

I quote

” The Monday strip will be the top three panels for the upcoming Sunday strip and will be cut and pasted in along with a picture of the outside of a house or building that seems to be talking and a cut and paste of several other panels from the remaining strips during the week , thus ensuring that no one will actually have to draw a Sunday strip because thats like ya know work.

also to ensure you don’t break a sweat or anything make sure to keep the plot development down to a minimum and never draw the characters feet. use the word weirdo often and throw in a ye Gods at some point.

remember a confused reader is a loyal reader so always drop dangling plots with out resolution, make your characters expand and compress as if they were made of rubber and put minimal detail into important props so it looks as if the character is reading a blank piece of paper or playing a musical instrument strapless and with the wrong number of strings.

Follow these handy tips and you too will be on the road to cartooning success !”

and the rest of the week’s panels will be the wrong guesses , yes, always with the tight closeups, eliminating the need for background art

The word weirdo, derived from weird, is spelled correctly in the comic, Warehouse.

“Striped Necktie Monthly,” “How to be a Lazy Cartoonist…”

gillbillvolume1 has access to all the great publications!

Ty Flight suit , yes my reference library is quite vast !

I think you would really enjoy my back issues of Flooom aficionado , Undead bunnies and jet-pack enthusiast !

ok now i get it – this once fantastic strip now exists only as a forum for us to vent about how lame it is every day. if gould were alive he’d be rolling in his grave.

if gould were alive he’d be rolling in his grave.

ya know that statement is more true than you can imagine, though I think he’d also be screaming too .

My guess is that they want better stories and artwork!

Wait … Can Dick believe what he got in the mail? Or not? I don’t understand … I haven’t been told enough times … WHY doesn’t Locher tell us what’s going on ENOUGH TIMES so we can GET IT??????

-Cougar :{)

His tortured script and the scandalous art That from his fellows set him apart Where we once cheered and wanted more Now it is the stuff that makes us snore We are chided for what we say Because it is in a negative way But when you have read the strip for years By now you can only be reduced to tears What there is to look forward to Are the comments of the fractious few.

wndrwrthg said, “…Are the comments of the fractious few”

wndrwrthg, what would we do without your poetic comments to keep us addicted?

they want flattop and pruneface to come back? duck twacy? fearlessfosd ick to coming falling thru the door?

If it’s a weirdo, then I guess they want to give you an award for Excellence in Police work.

Good one Flight Suit.

I love Frog Applause Blog a lot more than its strip itself.

http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/

:-)