Political cartoonist and “Dick Tracy” artist exhibits work at North Central College
The works of Dick Locher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune and artist for the “Dick Tracy” comic strip, will be featured in a month-long exhibit in North Central College’s new Schoenherr Art Gallery Nov. 3 thru Dec. 4.
Titled “The Art of Dick Locher-Dick Tracy, Political Cartoons and Beyond,” the free exhibit will showcase selected political cartoons, comic strip and fine arts pieces, including bronze castings, in Schoenherr Art Gallery at the College’s new Wentz Concert Hall and Fine Arts Center, 171 E. Chicago Ave., in Naperville. The gallery will be open weekdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and one hour before most performing arts events in the Fine Arts Center, including weekends.
Locher is recognized worldwide as a cartoonist and commentator on the American scene. His unerring ability to capture the absurdities of life through his political cartoons garnered him a Pulitzer Prize in 1983. A leading editorial cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune since 1973, his cartoons are nationally syndicated by Tribune Media Services 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.Since 1983 Locher has been the artist of the “Dick Tracy“ comic strip and in 2005 took over as both writer and artist. He assisted Dick Tracy’s originator Chester Gould from 1957 to 1961.
