huh huh... he said "Dick"...

Whenever a well-known comic celebrates a landmark anniversary, you can count on several other strips either mentioning it outright, or somehow paying tribute. If it was not for this inevitability, I would not have known that today is the 75th anniversary (or "birthday", depending on who you ask) of Dick Tracy. I never actually liked the comic strip, but the movie with Warren Beatty was pretty kickass. Anyway, here's a roundup of the relevant strips I saw today.






The "tribute" in Shoe is my favourite, because it's basically an Easter egg.

Between the 2 comic syndicates and the 2 newspaper sites that I check every day, I have access to 241 strips, but I only keep track of 62 of them. Of those, only 4 had Dick Tracy tributes. Compare that to the Blondie 75th anniversary when I saw at least 20 strips with various crossovers and tributes.