On this day, November 20, in 1900, cartoonist Chester Gould was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma. First hired by Randolph Hearst to work for the Chicago Evening American penning the comic strips “Fillum Fables” and “The Radio Catts”, it was when he moved to the Chicago Tribune that he introduced the iconic comic strip that would become his legacy: “Dick Tracy”. (The series actually debuted in the Detroit Mirror on October 4, 1931.) He continued to produce stories of the chisel faced, gadget wielding detective until he retired on Christmas Day 1977. He died of congestive heart failure in 1985, at age 84.
