Today it was announced that political cartoonist and comic strip artist Dick Locher has died at the age of 88. Most obituary mention his run as the artist of Dicjt Tracy in the eighties but fail to mention that he had already assisted Chester Gould on Tracy in the late fifties. In that same period he also worked on the Tracy 'topper' The Gravies, which was actually a 'bottomer' and only produced for and used by the Chicago Tribune to fit their particular first page lay-out. This uniquely funny strip was produced by Cheter Gould with his team of assitants, who were all mentioned in it as well. Locher only features in the first few years. He left the Gould for a commercial career in 1961 and we see his name leaving the last panel on April 9 of 1961. This long later run of the strip is actually only a part of a longer selection of Chicago Tribunes I have and will scan in the future. At some point I had started in 1957 and you see those first one at the beginning. I had been waiting to show these until I was done scanning the rest, but as a tribute to Mr. Locher, I am sharing them today as an extra.
