Nerdage » Dick Tracy http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage Features Editor Matt Price blogs the world of the geek Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:25:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Dick Tracy sticking around, syndicate says http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/12/01/dick-tracy-sticking-around-syndicate-says/ http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/12/01/dick-tracy-sticking-around-syndicate-says/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:41:45 +0000 nerdblog http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/12/01/dick-tracy-sticking-around-syndicate-says/ Nerdage]]> NewsOK’s Extremely Graphic blog points out this Daily Cartoonist post in which Tribune Media Services says it has no plans to end “Dick Tracy.”

– Matt Price

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/12/01/dick-tracy-sticking-around-syndicate-says/feed/ 0 Illinois’ Dick Tracy Museum to close http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/02/27/illinois-dick-tracy-museum-to-close/ http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/02/27/illinois-dick-tracy-museum-to-close/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:49:59 +0000 nerdblog http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2008/02/27/illinois-dick-tracy-museum-to-close/ Nerdage]]> In sad news for fans of gumshoe Dick Tracy, created by Oklahoma’s Chester Gould, the Dick Tracy Museum of Woodstock, Ill., is slated to close.

The Chicago Tribune reports the Gould estate could no longer fund the museum, which opened in 1991, and it will close in June.   Family members plan to make an internet site highlighting some of Gould’s letters and strips as a more accessible replacement.

– Matt Price

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