Chester Gould

“I put in my comic strip what I read in the papers.”

“Crime does not pay... is the moral of our story.”

“I patterned my style after the movies. I looked at the movies and said, 'Why couldn't you do a comic strip that way?'”

“The public is not as dumb as some people think.”

“You have to have a villain that's as smart as your hero.”

“I thought the readers were ready for a strip that would be an exposé of what was going on in the country.”

“I've always tried to be a good storyteller, and I think that's the most important thing.”

“I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.”

“We had to get the reader's attention. That was the main thing.”

“I have always felt that if a thing is worth drawing, it is worth drawing as realistically as possible.”