Dick got his start in the cartooning business in 1969 when his hometown Illinois weekly newspaper, the Loves Park Post, published his first cartoon strip, Double Eagle & Co. The Double Eagle strip brought much attention to the young Kulpa, and he continued working as an independent editorial cartoonist and graphic artist. Kulpa’s first syndicated work appeared in 1983 when he produced the Star Trek and Bruce Lee newspaper comics for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
From 1982-88, Kulpa served as the graphic arts manager for the renowned Testor Corporation, a manufacturer of model kits, where he designed cartoon instruction sheets and collateral materials for their line of Weird-Ohs models.
He illustrated Tribune Media Services’ nationally and internationally syndicated Ghost Story Club comic strip and the weekly cartoon panel, Draw Play, for the Chicago Bear Report newspaper. In 1998, Kulpa illustrated the humor book, The Redneck Guide to Raisin’ Children, written by Annie & Glen-Bob Smith.
