The Windswept wishes a Happy Birthday to Chester Gould (November 20, 1900) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains. Fascinated by the comics since childhood, Gould quickly found work as a cartoonist. He was hired by William Randolph Hearsts Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables (1924) and The Radio Catts. He also drew a topical strip about Chicago, Why Its a Windy City. Gould married Edna Gauger in 1926, and their daughter, Jean, was born in 1927. Proposed comic strip drawn by Chester Gould one year before he created Dick Tracy. To see this strip at full resolution, go to Three Men in a Tub. His cousin Henry W. Gould is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at West Virginia University. In 1931, Gould was hired as a cartoonist with the Chicago Tribune and introduced Dick Tracy in the newspaper The Detroit Mirror on Sunday, October 4, 1931. The original comic was based on a New York detective Gould was interested in. The comic then branched to the fictional character that became so famous. He drew the comic strip for the next 46 years from his home in Woodstock, Illinois. Goulds stories were rarely pre-planned, since he preferred to improvise stories as he drew them. While fans praised this approach as producing exciting stories, it sometimes created awkward plot developments that were difficult to resolve. In one notorious case, Gould had Tracy in an inescapable deathtrap with a caisson. When Gould depicted Tracy addressing Gould personally and having the cartoonist magically extract him, publisher Joseph Patterson vetoed the sequence and ordered it redrawn. Late in the period of Goulds control of it, the Tracy strip was widely criticized as too right-wing in character, and as excessively supportive of the police. This commentary argued that Gould was using the strip to push his own political agenda such as attacking the rights of the accused at the expense of storytelling. Additionally, the late 1950s saw a changing newspaper readership that was perhaps less tolerant of Goulds style. From Wikipedia, Love History? Please Share and do give our page a LIkE. Thank you. ;)
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