I recently attended a dinner where Scott (Dilbert) Adams was the speaker. He said that the regulations put on newspaper cartoonists are now so restrictive that cartoonists cannot show people firing guns, nor the damage inflicted by them. Adams was reduced to showing a cop firing bullets from a donut! This explains why the Tracy strip above is reduced to using shadows. In light of the fact that Dick Tracy in the 1930’s – 1960’s had full-fledged gunfights and fires, the future of Dick Tracy looks pretty bleak!
I recently attended a dinner where Scott (Dilbert) Adams was the speaker. He said that the regulations put on newspaper cartoonists are now so restrictive that cartoonists cannot show people firing guns, nor the damage inflicted by them. Adams was reduced to showing a cop firing bullets from a donut! This explains why the Tracy strip above is reduced to using shadows. In light of the fact that Dick Tracy in the 1930’s – 1960’s had full-fledged gunfights and fires, the future of Dick Tracy looks pretty bleak!