Home / Part: Comedian strips
Shelley Pleger Now Dick Tracy Main Artwork Squad
Joe Staton stated goodbye as pencil artist in the October 24, 2021 Dick Tracy comic strip.
Shelley Pleger, who has been the inker and letterer of the Curtis/Staton Dick Tracy from the start, will now add layouts and pencils to her chores beginning October 25, 2021.
And after we say “from the start” we imply earlier than the Mike Curtis and Joe Staton debut on the syndicated Dick Tracy cartoon that began March 14, 2011. Shelley was a part of the 2010 inventive group as inker/letterer once they produced the Major Crime Squad strip as a tryout for the true factor.
In 2017 Shelley, subbing for Joe, provided the total artwork in a sequence guest starring Svengoolie.
So Shelley is hardly the “new” artist for Dick Tracy.
She is, nonetheless, “the primary feminine lead artist Dick Tracy has ever had,” as Tribune Content Agency says in a publicity release introducing Shelley as the main artist.
Shelley Pleger is a self-taught cartoonist and illustrator from the Pacific Northwest who has labored on varied freelance comics initiatives, most notably, re-creating traditional comics for Disney Gemstone. A digital artist, Shelley has all the time appreciated the traditional brush-inked comics fashion and strives to deliver this high quality into her present work for Dick Tracy.
Readers may be assured that the storylines and artwork that characterize the individuality of Dick Tracy will forge forward. Pleger will proceed to work with Mike Curtis, the writer of Dick Tracy for the previous decade. They are going to instantly decide up with cross-over themes in Pleger’s first week. The Dick Tracy panels will function a well-recognized traditional face recognized to cartoon followers—Daddy Warbucks of Little Orphan Annie.
The Dick Tracy Wiki provides that Shelley “sometimes assists with dialogue.”
Due to Joe for reviving Dick Tracy and a hearty “onward” to Shelley.
Associated
