Chester Gould's Early Years of Struggle

Above: a sports feature by Chester Gould. The feature was rejected the same year that TRACY was accepted.Chester Gould created DICK TRACY. Yeah, yeah, everyone knows that.But, before that -- before TRACY -- Mr. Gould persisted, enduring rejection after rejection, for a decade, before he hit on what was then called PLAINCLOTHES TRACY.Mr. Gould took a cartoon correspondence course when he was a