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Feb

Groundhog Day-Twilight Zone Mashup for Cag ‘n Drex

Categories: Dick Tracy and Makeup

Submitted for your approval – Two Hollywood makeup artists, John Caglione and Doug Drexler, shortly after winning the Academy Award for the makeup in “Dick Tracy”, are invited to attend “Dick Tracy Days” in Woodstock Illinois, the hometown of Dick Tracy creator Chestor Gould. We were wined, dined, treated like kings, and made grandmarshalls of the Dick Tracy Day parade! There’s the signpost up ahead! But wait! It get’s weirder! Woodstock is the town which served as backdrop to the Bill Murray classic “Groundhog Day”, and I cannot watch it without getting that same Twilight Zone feeling all over again. The town square, the stores, the whole Smallville feel. It was an odd feeling shaking hands and kissing babies for three days, but we had a ball! Thanks Woodstock!

Jan

Cag ‘N Drex Makeup Explosion!

By Doug Drexler 19 Comments

Categories: Dick Tracy and Makeup

Check out after 3:39. What a blast from the past!

Thanks to my buddy Matt Boardman!

Oct

Calling Dick Tracy! 90 – New Case Sunday Double Header!

By Doug Drexler 7 Comments

Categories: Dick Tracy

Master storyteller Chester Gould opens our third Dick Tracy case with Tracy and Sam called to the police bomb disposal range. A suspicious package has been found in a bus station locker, but as you might expect in a Dick Tracy adventure, this is no ordinary bomb…

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