What's the definitive Chicago comic strip? For my money, it's Dick Tracy. (Sorry, Brenda Starr fans.) Did you know Dick Tracy always
had an eye for pastiches? The first Dick Tracy villain, Big Boy, was
a pastiche of Al Capone. Not too long after Big Boy showed up, Dick
Tracy took on something that looked an awful lot like the kidnapping
of the Lindbergh baby.
It's with Dick Tracy as touchstone, that we now bring you "Division &
Rush." Cartoonist Chester Gould played Dick Tracy as drama. Division
& Rush is a satire. Using the crime comic as a vehicle, we're going
to poke a little fun at Chicago crime and Chicago personalities. Law
& Order doesn't have a monopoly on current event driven plots, after
all.
Our initial serial, "The Murder Professor," contemplates the public's reaction to Drew Peterson (and we should hasten to add Peterson is innocent until proven guilty) and puts a satirical lens over the scenario of what happens when someone the public and police are convinced is guilty walks away as a free man. It's not Drew Peterson. It's not OJ Simpson. No, our boy is "Stu Peterman." Click the comic panel below and we hope you get a chuckle out of "How Murderers Get Caught," the first chapter of "The Murder Professor," below.
It's Not Drew Peterson...
Drowned in a Tub on the Chalkboard
Division and Rush: The Murder Professor Week 1 - Screen 1Proceed to Chapter 2: Death Takes a Bath
1 Comment
lola said:
Hey magister,
Kathleen Savio was someone's daughter, sister, mother, and friend. Using her murder as a subject of humour makes you a total ASSHOLE. Get help.
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