The Tribune's 175th anniversary celebrates its comics: 'Comics were born of a simple time, in an era when a trip to a flea circus or the nickelodeon were among but a few entertainment options for most people.'
Tribune cartoonist Chester Gould draws his Dick Tracy comic in an undated photo.
He became an instant sensation, spawning a raft of products and stunning the industry. It had been Pulitzer’s intention to use the recently developed four-color printing press to bring fine art to the masses. But attempts to reproduce paintings resulted in murky images. Comics, on the other hand, proved terrific on newsprint.
Patterson helped create and nourish, among many other strips, “The Gumps,” “Gasoline Alley,” “Moon Mullins” and “Terry and the Pirates.” He was energetically hands-on, offering advice, coaching artists and coming up with ideas to promote the strips. He would regularly assemble his cartoonists to discuss characters and storylines.
Chester Gould, left, creator of"Dick Tracy," with Mary Pat McCormick, 10, and her brother Michael McCormick in Gould's office in Tribune Tower in 1962 trying new two-way wrist radios. Newspaper buyers often referred to the paper not by its name but asked for “the Andy Gump paper.” And in 1923, when the death of one of that strip’s characters was foretold, as Lloyd Wendt detailed in his “Chicago Tribune” book, “hundreds of readers appeared in front of the Tribune building to protest, and thousands of calls jammed the switchboards, so that extra operators had to be brought in.
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