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Ray Toler Free

I am a designer, actor and artist living in Chicago. I am winner of the Joseph Jefferson Award for Scenic Design (Chicago version of the Tonys) and have received multiple nominations. My cartooning can be seen in the book Literary Fails by literary agent and TV producer Sharlene Martin (available on Amazon). <p> I am also a character actor who has appeared in several movies including US Marshals, Home Alone, A League of Their Own, and others. You may check me out on IMDB at </p>

Comics I Follow

Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Alley

By Jim Scancarelli
Mutt & Jeff

Mutt & Jeff

By Bud Fisher

Recent Comments

  1. about 3 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Sweeney Todd

  2. about 8 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Very good, but close to not being a satire. More true than ironic.

  3. about 8 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    I don’t see how a 2 generation difference in time and situation would make his family’s original name some kind of scandal today. Apparently Tracy is the only one old enough to remember the association with Pruneface.

    Whatever Toten’s ancestors were called doesn’t make any difference unless EC believes that the theory of “bad seed” or “black-sheep” inheritance runs in Toten’s family and, though debunked by science is accepted by Tracy and his ESP-like hunches. Not very scientific or original considering Maxwell Anderson wrote a play titled “The Bad Seed” in the early 50s about a seemingly perfect little girl who was sinister inside because she had inherited “the bad seed.” The ultimate theme of that play was that redemption was possible. I don’t think that will be the case here.

  4. about 8 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    So, what crime has been committed that either Father Toten or Junior Toten can be arrested for? Junior may intend to commit a crime and the father may have told him what to do. We, the readers, have not been made privvy to that information. Tracy has a crystal ball so he apparently knows the score, but we have not been told how all of the info Tracy’s team uncovered fits together.

    Very confusing. I have to agree with tsull2121.

  5. about 8 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    Same Barber.

  6. about 9 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    The villains have not been made well-rounded. They do not have depth, which is why we are unable to decipher their intentions criminally. What has the crime been? Is having a Nazi ancestor a crime? What’s the difference between Junior and Moon Guv’s brother. Aren’t they both Nazis? Am I sensing a repetitive theme here?

  7. about 9 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    That is because of poor writing where nothing about his reaction to his name has previously been mentioned other than the original name was Totenhanz. Many Germans moved here after the war and changed their names. Even in America Harpo Marx changed his real first name, “Adolph,” to “Arthur.” Does that mean he was somehow connected with Nazis? I think name-changes were quite common following the war. Was Tracy calling him by his real name supposed to be something so dramatic that they had to bold-face it? What’s Tracy have on him? I’m just tired of sloppy, uninformed writing.

  8. about 9 hours ago on Dick Tracy

    But what ever comes of it?

  9. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    I recall you got banned because the censors perceived you said something insulting to her.

  10. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

    I gotta find a doctor for that.