Richard A. Moores

(1909-1986) born in Lincoln. Cartoonist, television producer, writer, worked five years for Chester Gould, the creator of the comic strip "Dick Tracy", worked for 14 years in comic strip department of Walt Disney Studios, and was chief artist and writer for syndicated comic strip "Gasoline Alley", which appeared in 180 daily newspapers and 125 Sunday editions from 1960 to 1986. Consult Something about the Author, Vol 48 (Gale, 1987) 163 and Ron Goulart ed, The Encyclopedia of American Comics from 1897 to the Present (Promised Land Productions, 1990) 149-150, 265-266.

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