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Article: The man behind Dick Tracy.(Neighbor)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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Byline: Susan Dibble sdibble@dailyherald.com
Dick Locher never had drawn an editorial cartoon in his life when his late friend and mentor, Chester Gould, told him the Chicago Tribune had an opening for an editorial cartoonist.
Gould suggested Locher head to the Trib the next day with 12 samples of his work.
Locher stayed up all night and managed to come up with seven cartoons. He got the job and the Naperville resident became a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist at the Tribune u a post he still holds 39 years later.
What Locher didnAEt know was that he also would one day take over producing the Dick Tracy comic strip Gould ...