Cartoon Central

Dick Tracy has had quite a few spin-offs in other media, from radio series to movie serials to a few cartoons (now on DVD), to the 1990 Warren Beatty film. Maybe you didn’t like it, but I love this movie. Heck, I even dug the board game they made from it. The film had fantastic sets and colors to reflect the old-timey Sunday comic strip tone, and it featured a pile of classic Tracy baddies. This film fueled my fondness for Dick Tracy. It also spawned a tie-in comic with art by Kyle Baker, which is cool. Usually, Tracy’s involvement in the world of comic books is through reprints, but this was original material. I’d like to see something of the kind these days– maybe a “Dick Tracy Begins” kind of graphic novel? That’d be interesting.