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Chester Gould

Chester Gould (1900 - 1985) was active/lived in New York, Illinois, Oklahoma.  Chester Gould is known for Illustrations-cartoon.

Cartoonist Chester Gould, as a young boy, fell under the spell of Mutt and Jeff and Sherlock Holmes. In 1931, he created Dick Tracy, a strip that became nearly as successful as Bud Fishers, and featured a detective who became nearly as well-known as Conan Doyles.

Gould, the son of a publisher of a weekly newspaper, was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma in 1900. Gould once said "It was probably that influence which got me into the frame of mind to become a cartoonist." He migrated to Chicago in 1921 to finish college. Although he majored in business administration, he went from school directly into drawing for newspapers. The years before he signed his Dick Tracy contract, Gould recalled, were a decade of frustrating experiences in just about every Chicago newspaper art department. While he shifted from paper to paper, Gould kept inventing comic strips. Some of the sold, some of them did not. In 1924, he was doing a topical gag strip called The Radio Lanes for the Chicago American, and la   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3949 characters.]  Artist bio

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