Chester Gould

Shoppers initially refused to use them until the inventor hired models to push them around the store.

Other things invented in Oklahoma include bread twist ties, aerosol cans, the modern flight suit, the Boy Scouts, voicemail, smoked bologna, and Dick Tracy, which was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931.

Oklahoma has produced more astronauts than any other state.

It has the most man-made lakes in the country and is the only state that produces iodine.

Before audiences saw Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy on cinema screens in 1990, they were introduced to its visual style through a series of posters that stopped people in their tracks At a time when Hollywood posters often relied on star portraits and crowded compositions, the Dick Tracy campaign took a totally different approach.

A yellow fedora, a trench coat, a shaded profile, instantly recognizable, endlessly memorable, a perfectly in tune with Chester Gould's legendary comic strip creation.

At the heart of this campaign was the artist and designer Johnny Kwan, whose work helped define the visual identity of the film long before its release.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in California, Kwan developed a career that would take him into the world of entertainment marketing, working on projects for Disney and some of the biggest films of the modern era.

And I wanted to say too, I really love how you kind of play with the idea of like there, especially early on the PTSD, you know, from coming back from like the war and everything and how that kind of interweaves into i think it's a really nice touch with everything going on with you know your typical um like you know dick tracy villains and you know him on the case chasing all these like killers and you know murderers out

yeah that's i really appreciate that it means a lot i think the reader response has been so good and i think our big idea with that book was how do we honor what's come before but add our voices to it and make it feel like it's a We didn't want to feel like we were imitating Chester Gould because many people have done that and there's a space for that, but we wanted to really put our own spin on it without doing a disservice to the canon.

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I'm glad we succeeded with you.