Meet "Croptop"...
https://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2024/04/07
Any Dick Tracy fans groaning about Yet Another Flattop Relative can blame me.
I was visiting the Shandafa family over the holidays with EOCostello and during a convo about the strip, I said, "Hey! I got a great idea for a villain! A gal with a mullet, called "Croptop Jones!"
Needless to say, Mike Curtis loved the idea...
Dick Tracy © Tribune Services. Lineart by Chuffalo. Color by Shane Fisher.
Any Dick Tracy fans groaning about Yet Another Flattop Relative can blame me.
I was visiting the Shandafa family over the holidays with EOCostello and during a convo about the strip, I said, "Hey! I got a great idea for a villain! A gal with a mullet, called "Croptop Jones!"
Needless to say, Mike Curtis loved the idea...
Dick Tracy © Tribune Services. Lineart by Chuffalo. Color by Shane Fisher.
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Gender Any
Size 437 x 283px
She caught my eye this morning as I was reading my daily comics... intriguing character.
Heck I used to kid about her brown nosing factory management, said she could be DT character. Joke fell flat on the younger guards. Older ones loved it.
For those interested, this is a pretty prime example of marmelmm's whole "encyclopedic synthesis" routine. In chat, Mitch and I, along with a few others, were riffing on additional members of the Jones clan, the Jukes-like clan that's been a feature of the Dick Tracy strip since the 1940s. I came up with "Croptop," focusing on the shirt. Got a few laughs. Lo and behold, some weeks later, Mitch and I were having lunch with Mike Curtis (the writer for DT); the whole Jones clan saga came up. Mitch, with sharp timing, brought up "Croptop," and added a twist I hadn't thought of: Croptop should have a mullet. Mike laughed, and put the idea in his vest pocket. Evidently, it's been brought out of the vest pocket. I do agree that Charles Ettinger did a solid job in the character's design.
How ideas work, Prime Example. Damn good to see new characters in that strip. Somewhere I have a paperback reprint of the Pruneface saga from the 1940s. Had it since the mid 1970s. Dad got a kick out of it,the remembered it from when he was a kid
Hey she looks like a cartoon version of my momma Tricia in the face but my momma is a bit more fluffy (her words) Same hair cut too. I showed her and she loved it... Nice work Major sweetie. 😍😍😍😛💗💕😎
She looks like coyote jerky: tough and unpleasant. And yeah, the Crimestoppers author was not lost on me.
(grins) Walt's been doing the Crimestoppers for years...
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