Forty years after his death, the work of Chester Gould still conjures one of America’s most enduring archetypes—Dick Tracy, the square-jawed detective who pursued gangsters with cold logic and clever gadgets.
From 1931 to 1977, Gould’s comic strip chronicled crime and justice with a moral intensity and visual flair that mirrored America’s uneasy relationship with technology, corruption, and heroism.
