Dick Tracy - then and now

Yo... To illustrate Marilla's point from yesterday's post, here are two Dick Tracy strips. The first is from Sept. 23, 1944 and when printed, spanned the width of the newspaper page. The second strip is from Feb. 20, 2007. Look in your paper and see how small they are printed today. There are commonly two rows of comics with ads or puzzles along the side of the page. The modern comic strip is less than a third of the width of the page. Click on the 1944 strip and check out the level of detail drawn in the background (and this example is mild). That just can't be done in today's comics.



--Click them to enlarge.








Tomorrow I promise to bring you funny comic strips. Enough of this adventure stuff, eh?