I thought I may be the oldest until marvee posted. I’ll be 72 in another month and live in NE Louisiana. I started reading Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant, Steve Canyon, etc. when I was old enough to read most of the words. The art work and action captured my attention. I eventually became an architect, always loving artistic endeavors. When Dick Tracy collections started appearing, I purchased them all: Celebrated Cases, Fiendish Foes, Casebook, America’s Most Famous Detective, Wartime Memories. I lost the continuity when our local paper dropped Tracy as well as all of the adventure strips. I discovered Gocomics a year ago and was excited to find Tracy again. I read all of the archive strips and saw how DT had suffered during the last decade. I cannot believe that TMS is allowing this to continue in its present form. Doesn’t anyone care? Why do I keep reading it? I hope that one day I will see something similar to Plainsclothes Tracy appear instead of this insanity that leaves dead bodies on a stage and corrupt funeral directors go unpunished while a man that gives out fake $1000 bills is called a good man in one panel and the worst kind of criminal in another. I’m holding out for another month, hoping that Locher will retire and someone takes the strip. After that, I’m afraid I will no longer take the time to look in on this silly excuse for a once great art form.
I thought I may be the oldest until marvee posted. I’ll be 72 in another month and live in NE Louisiana. I started reading Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant, Steve Canyon, etc. when I was old enough to read most of the words. The art work and action captured my attention. I eventually became an architect, always loving artistic endeavors. When Dick Tracy collections started appearing, I purchased them all: Celebrated Cases, Fiendish Foes, Casebook, America’s Most Famous Detective, Wartime Memories. I lost the continuity when our local paper dropped Tracy as well as all of the adventure strips. I discovered Gocomics a year ago and was excited to find Tracy again. I read all of the archive strips and saw how DT had suffered during the last decade. I cannot believe that TMS is allowing this to continue in its present form. Doesn’t anyone care? Why do I keep reading it? I hope that one day I will see something similar to Plainsclothes Tracy appear instead of this insanity that leaves dead bodies on a stage and corrupt funeral directors go unpunished while a man that gives out fake $1000 bills is called a good man in one panel and the worst kind of criminal in another. I’m holding out for another month, hoping that Locher will retire and someone takes the strip. After that, I’m afraid I will no longer take the time to look in on this silly excuse for a once great art form.