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1. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Intro (skip if you’ve already read any of the previous intros):

   Hello, greetings, casual readers of past Tracy stories. I’m here because I’m on 2 missions. The first is something I’ve never done before, read each Tracy story by Mike Curtis (or his occasional guest writer) in one sitting each. I feel his stories are worth it. IMHO, Curtis is by far the best post-Gould writer this strip has ever had, and we’re all lucky to have him.

   My second mission is to provide an immediately useful Featured Comment whenever needed. My 3 friends below will reply to me. You can read their replies if you like, but their only real purpose is to bump up this comment to the Featured Comment.

   There are 2 basic types of immediately useful Featured Comments: the first type is to provide you with a Mumblespeak translator when needed. The other type (this type) is anytime that day’s strip quotes a real song. I will provide an html to a recording to that song so you’ll know the tune even if you’ve never heard it before.

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   The song Daddy Warbucks is singing is “Something Was Missing” from the original Annie musical. Listen to it here:

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2. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! THE MOST READILY AVAILABLE SAMPLING OF SUNDAY AND DAILY STRIPS OF KRAZY KAT THROUGHOUT THE STRIP’S RUN IS THE BOOK KRAZY KAT: THE COMIC ART OF GEORGE HARRIMAN PUBLISHED IN 1986!

3. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: The daily strips for 1921 to 1923 were reprinted by Pacific Comics Club, in two series of different sizes. Comics Revue published all of the daily strips from September 8, 1930 through December 31, 1934. In 2007, Fantagraphics offered a one-shot reprint of daily strips from 1910s and 1920s, and plans a more complete reprinting of the daily strip in the future.

4. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoting from Wikipedia: In 1990, Kitchen Sink Press, in association with Remco Worldservice Books, reprinted two volumes of color Sunday strips dating from 1935 to 1937, but like Eclipse, they collapsed before they could continue the series. The 3-D Zone #5, published by The 3-D Zone in June 1987, features reprints of Krazy Kat strips converted into 3-D, and includes two pairs of red-blue 3-D glasses.

5. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! ALL OF THE SUNDAY STRIPS FROM 1916-24 WERE REPRINTED BY ECLIPSE COMICS FROM 1988 UNTIL 1992 WHEN ECLIPSE WENT OUT OF BUSINESS! IN 2002 FANTAGRAPHICS RESUMED REPRINTING THE SUNDAY STRIPS WHERE ECLIPSE HAD LEFT OFF, COMPLETING THE SERIES IN 2008 WITH THE TENTH VOLUME!

6. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: For many decades, only a small percentage of Herriman’s strip was available in reprinted form. The first Krazy Kat collection, published by Henry Holt and Company in 1946, just two years after Herriman’s death, gathered 200 selected strips. In Europe, the cartoons were first reprinted in 1965 by the Italian magazine Linus, and appeared in the pages of the French monthly Charlie Mensuel starting in 1970. In 1969, Grosset & Dunlap produced a single hardcover collection of selected episodes and sequences spanning the entire length of the strip’s run. The Netherlands’ Real Free Press published five issues of Krazy Kat Komix in 1974–1976, containing a few hundred strips apiece; each of the issues’ covers was designed by Joost Swarte. However, owing to the difficulty of tracking down high-quality copies of the original newspapers, no plans for a comprehensive collection of Krazy Kat strips surfaced until the 1980s.

7. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Quoting from Wikipedia: In the summer of 1934, the Krazy Kat Sunday page was temporarily shelved, although the daily strip continued as before. Beginning in June 1935, Krazy Kat’s Sunday page returned, and was thereafter published in full color. Though the number of newspapers carrying it dwindled in its last decade, Herriman continued to draw Krazy Kat, creating roughly 3,000 comics in total, until his death in April 1944 (the final Sunday page was published exactly two months later, on June 25). Hearst promptly canceled the strip after the artist died, because, contrary to the common practice of the time, he did not want to see a new cartoonist take over.

8. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   PARAPHRASING FROM WIKIPEDIA! DEPSITE IT’S LOW POPULARITY AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC, KRAZY KAT GAINED A WIDE FOLLOWING AMONG INTELLECTUALS! IN 1922 A JAZZ BALLET BASED ON THE STRIP WAS COMPOSED BY JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER! AMONG KRAZY KAT’S ADMERIERS WERE T! S! ELLIOT, WILLIAM DE KOONING, H! L! MENCKEN, P! G! WODEHOUSE, JACK KEROUAC, ROBERT BENCHLEY, AND PAUL NASH! RECENT SCHOLARS HAVE SEEN THE STRIP AS REFLECTING THE DADA MOVEMENT AND PREFIGURING POSTMODERNISM!

9. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Hello, Haf-and-Haf here. Quoting from Wikipedia: This “basement strip” grew into something much larger than the original cartoon. Krazy Kat first appeared as its own daily comic strip in 1911, and then again in the summer of 1912, although only temporarily at the time. It again became a daily comic strip (running vertically down the side of the page) in October 1913, and was thereafter to remain in syndication for more than thirty years. A black and white, full-page Krazy Kat Sunday comic was launched on April 23, 1916. Possibly due to the objections of editors, who did not think it was suitable for the comics sections, Krazy Kat originally appeared in the Hearst papers’ art and drama sections. It has been claimed that Hearst himself, however, enjoyed the strip so much that he gave Herriman a lifetime contract and guaranteed the cartoonist complete creative freedom, although according to Michael Tisserand’s biography on Herriman (2016), there exists no proof that this alleged lifetime contract was ever made or signed.

10. 8 days ago on Dick Tracy

    Quoted from Wikipedia: Krazy Kat evolved from an earlier comic strip of Herriman’s, The Dingbat Family, which started in June 1910 and was later renamed The Family Upstairs. This comic chronicled the Dingbats’ attempts to avoid the mischief of the mysterious unseen family living in the apartment above theirs and to unmask that family. Herriman would complete the daily comics about the Dingbats, and finding himself with time left over in his 8-hour work day, filled the bottom of the strip with slapstick drawings of the upstairs family’s mouse preying upon the Dingbats’ cat.