Of course, you never nit-pick, but if you were, I might point out that it could very well be that she is sitting forward, making her case to her boss in panel one. Then, when he approves of her work, she sits back a little bit and relaxes in the third panel. That would be excellent attention to detail within the art, don’t you think?
Gould had plenty of procedure mixed in with his “go-get-’em” moments. In Ellery Queen’s introduction to Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, the point is made that the Dick Tracy strip is considered a pioneer in Police Procedural fiction, having been in existence years before the 87th Precinct Books and similar works. Gould would sometimes spend days showing detailed lab analysis, for example. One big difference between then and now is that Gould had Tracy himself rolling up his sleeves in the lab, not just sending evidence in and waiting for a report. Classic Tracy strips are famous for their mix of procedure and action.
The singer was revealed in the last line of the song to be the daughter of the woman who had been called on the carpet in front of the PTA. The members of the PTA had their collective noses up in the air because this woman was holding down a tough job to support her daughter and herself, and incidentally wore mini skirts. It turned out that many of the PTA members had dirty secrets of their own, much worse than a mini skirt – a classic case of people in glass houses throwing stones.
There was also a 30s or very early 40s story featuring a bomb, and Tracy saw that the shrapnel was a bunch of slugs from a Linotype machine. I saw that in a book somewhere, and that’s all I can remember about it.
Cleveland’s Plain Dealer was one of the first to install the Goss Colorliner with ancillary inserting and shipping equipment. They said at the time it was the most modern newspaper plant in the world, but acknowledged that it would be way behind in another ten years or so. I took their tour with a friend on a Saturday when they were running all day doing the Sunday extra sections. It was very im_press_ive.
Of course, you never nit-pick, but if you were, I might point out that it could very well be that she is sitting forward, making her case to her boss in panel one. Then, when he approves of her work, she sits back a little bit and relaxes in the third panel. That would be excellent attention to detail within the art, don’t you think?