Mike Curtis (born 1953)[1] is an American writer who scripts the Dick Tracy comic strip, with Joe Staton as artist.
In the 1970s, Curtis was a horror movie TV host on Channel 6 in Jackson, Tennessee, as Count Basil on Shock Theater.
While there, he also designed the Harvey Enchanted Forest map (based on Irish Bayou in Louisiana) and scripted several pilots for Casper TV series and specials.
There it ran for 14 issues, while Curtis' wife Carole produced a Native American cat adventure comic called Katmandu with artist Terrie Smith.
SFA has published dozens of comic series and specials, including Extinctioners, Albedo Anthropomorphics, and the non-furry Last Kiss.
[4][5][6] Curtis and Staton were selected by Tribune Media Services to continue the Dick Tracy comic strip (which was approaching its 80th Anniversary) in January 2011.
Shelley Pleger, inker, who has worked as an artist for Disney, and Shane Fisher, Sunday colorist and a talented graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning, round out the team.
[9] Staton and Curtis had their first eBook collection, Calling Dick Tracy, published by Rabbit Hole Graphics.
[11] Katmandu is a furry comic book set in a fantasy world populated by anthropomorphic feline and rodent species.