biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1900–85)
|
| biography:
| Cartoonist, born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, USA. He created the newspaper comic strip Fillum Fables (1924) for Hearst's Chicago American, and in 1931 he created for syndication a strip featuring a square-jawed police detective named Dick Tracy. The strip encouraged citizen involvement in crime prevention and a strong adherence to the law. In 1990 the strip was adapted to a full-length film starring Warren Beatty as Tracy. |
|
|
