Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 29 (Graphic Novel)

Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 29 (Graphic Novel)
Chester Gould
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Hardback
h216 x 279mm - 288pg
9 Feb 2021 US
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9781684057528
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After 46 years-two months-and-twentyone-days writing and drawing Dick Tracy Chester Gould retired at the age of 77. In these historic final strips, Gould pits his dynamic detective against the latest in a long line of grotesque villains--Pucker Puss, the hitman who literally spits death at his opponents. Tracy, meanwhile, takes his law and order campaign to television, while his past catches up to him when a criminal he helped convict twenty years ago puts the detective on his "to kill" list. To round out this volume, the squadroom is kept busy with two members of B. O. Plenty' s extended family who are anything but law-abiding--Perfume Plenty and her larcenous cousin Dade. All this and more in the ultimate volume of Chester Gould' s Dick Tracy, collecting strips from March 15, 1976 to December 25, 1977. The series is ripe to introduce to crime prose readers who haven' t previously ventured into comics.
"Chester Gould introduced a new hard-hitting type of realism [that] marked a radical and historic departure: the comics were no longer just funny. --Jerry Robinson, The Comics Chester Gould' s paragon of avenging normalcy was not your average, tough-guy detective. A unique combination of brawn and brains, he prefigured a whole new breed of scientific sleuths, whose recourse to technical innovations in criminology gave them the edge on grifters and hoods. --Robert Storr, Dean, Yale University School of Art (from Masters of American Comics) This black and white morality play of Good vs. Evil was famously haunted by its gallery of grotesque and aptly named villains like Mumbles, the Brow and Flattop. Each of their faces was literally a map, a map of hell, indicated by the most peculiar configuration of lines the artist could manage. What great cartooning. . . it' s time to build new bookshelves to welcome one of America' s singular artistic achievements. --Art Spiegelman
Chester Gould (1900-1985) was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of a newspaperman and grandson of a circuit-riding preacher. He attended Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) before transferring to Northwestern University in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1923. He produced the minor comic strips Fillum Fables and The Radio Catts before striking it big with Dick Tracy in 1931. Originally titled Plainclothes Tracy, the rechristened strip became one of the most successful and lauded comic strips of all time, as well as a media and merchandising sensation. He was twice accorded the "Cartoonist of the Year" Reuben Award by his peers. Gould continued to write and illustrate Dick Tracy until his retirement in 1977.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781684057528
Published: 9 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Idea & Design Works
Publisher: Idea & Design Works
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 279mm
Pages: 288

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