Tracer Bullet is a private investigator. He makes his first appearance in the story in which Calvin gets his hair cut by Hobbes, and Calvin wears a hat to cover his bad haircut.

In the Tenth Anniversary Book, Bill says about writing Tracer Bullet: "Tracer Bullet stories are extremely time-consuming to write, so I don't attempt them often. I'm not at all familiar with film noir or detective novels, so these are just spoofs on the clichés of the genre. Cartoonists don't use black much anymore (the eye, being lazy, is attracted to empty white space, especially when the panels are so small), and we miss some dramatic possibilities that way."

You may have noticed that this site is now organized by year. The only strip I couldn't find any date info on was the first Tracer bullet script, where Calvin gets a bad haircut. Anyway, here are the three Tracer Bullet Series.



First Tracer Bullet Strip
Haircut
Tracer Bullet - 1990
Tracer Bullet - 1991


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