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OK. OK. We get it. The name of the hero in this comic strip is Dick Tracy. Therefore, you see various opportunities to make infantile jokes about Dick. You’ve been doing it now for years. Enough, already!
Yes, I’m retired now. I still miss printing sometimes, but I also know that it has changed a lot. I am active at my church, playing guitar in our worship band and teaching adult Sunday School on a rotating schedule.
Hi. I worked in commercial printing for most of my career. At a big printing plant doing catalogs, magazine inserts, coupon sheets, etc. for a while. Then about 30 years at a small shop in Painesville, where I ran one and two color sheetfed presses and also helped out in the finishing operations.
I took the tour of the Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) when they were still giving tours of their brand new (at the time) Color-liner printing presses. I was sad to see them go to less than daily for home delivery, although I notice there is still a daily print edition available at some stores. (I’m a retired printer, although I did not work at newspapers.)
The format of USA Today, with the use of color for editorial content, not just ads and comics, was a major factor in the press manufacturers coming up with much better controls for color.
In the late 1950s, there was a Chester Gould story where a crook named Ivy did exactly that – put the batteries in backwards in his remote device. (Or so everyone thought). But there was a clever twist in the story, and the bomb exploded after everybody was safely outside.
OK. OK. We get it. The name of the hero in this comic strip is Dick Tracy. Therefore, you see various opportunities to make infantile jokes about Dick. You’ve been doing it now for years. Enough, already!