The creator of "Dick Tracy,"
cartoonist Chester Gould started out in the advertising and sports
departments of various Chicago newspapers-and as a night student
at Northwestern University's School of Commerce, from which he graduated
in 1923. His break came in 1931, when Joseph Medill Patterson of
the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate first published
Gould's "Dick Tracy" comic strip. The cartoon's enduring
popularity recently inspired a feature film starring fellow Northwestern
alum Warren Beatty.
