Dick Locher and Jim Brozman
Dick Locher's ability to capture the absurdities of life through cartooning is known worldwide. His impact as a widely recognized editorial cartoonist and the creative writer and artist for the "Dick Tracy" comic strip is seen in the numerous awards he has received, including the Pulitzer Prize.
Locher established his reputation as one of the leading editorial cartoonists at the Chicago Tribune, where he has worked since 1972. His cartoons are nationally syndicated and have appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Playboy, The Congressional Record and hundreds of newspapers throughout the world. In 1983, Locher assumed the duty of illustrating the comic strip "Dick Tracy." He became the writer of the strip in 2005. Both "Dick Tracy" and Locher's editorial cartoons are syndicated by Tribune Media Services.
Locher was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. In 1986 he won the Worldwide Population Institute's competition for Best Cartoonist, and in 1987 he received the prestigious John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Award. In 1985, 1990 and 1991 he won the Peter Lisagor Award for excellence in journalism, presented by the Headline Club of Sigma Delta Chi. In addition to the Pulitzer in 1983, Locher has garnered top honors from the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists and received the U.S. Industrial Council's Dragon Slayer Award and the Distinguished Health Journalism Award. He won first place in the Overseas Press Club competition four times. In 2006 Locher was awarded the National Cartoonist Society's Silver T-Square Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cartooning.
Locher also has a number of books to his credit, including "Dick Locher Draws Fire," "Send in the Clowns," "Vote For Me," "Where's the None of the Above Button?" and "The Daze of Whine and Neurosis." He has collaborated on several books, as well: "Flying Can Be Fun" with Michael Kilian and "The Dick Tracy Casebook" and "Dick Tracy's Fiendish Foes" with Max Collins.
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Jim Brozman has been a published comic book artist since his days at Northern Illinois University where he earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration. Before graduation, he published his first comic called “Pablo Picasso: Police Artist.”
After graduation, Brozman established his reputation as a comic book artist when he worked on the Renegade Press comic book called “Strata,” a black-and-white comic with talking, sword-wielding otters, Lancelot and King Arthur. This series lasted two years until his next project at another Chicago-based comic book company, Now Comics.
There, he drew full-color comics, including “Rust,” “The Terminator,” “Speed Racer,” “Racer-X,” “The Real Ghostbusters,” “Slimer” and “The Green Hornet.” Brozman has worked for many independent comic book companies from the 1980s through the 1990s.
For the past decade, Brozman has worked on the retail side of the comic book industry managing stores for Graham Cracker Comics in the Chicagland area. He has also kept active drawing the occasional comic book story. His latest being a comic book Brozman created with the help of local color artist, Josh Warner, called “Naperville’s Finest,” which was a free comic book given away with The Naperville Sun and given out at the local high schools. “Naperville’s Finest” was co-created with local sports editors and depicted all the local high school mascots as superheroes battling their rival local mascots.
Brozman’s latest endeavor as artist for the legendary comic strip, “Dick Tracy,” is his first venture with Tribune Media Services. Watch for new characters and old friends in our award-winning strip – “Dick Tracy” – every day on the comics page and in color every Sunday.
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