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- Blondie Was Inspired by 1920s Flappers.
- Young Sold The Strip by Sending Editors A Paper Doll of Blondie in Lingerie.
- Dagwood Was Originally The Heir to A Railroad Fortune.
- Dagwood Went on A Hunger Strike in Order to Marry Blondie.
- Dagwood and Blondie Scandalously Slept in The Same Bed.
- The Early Strips Had An Unfortunate Preoccupation with Domestic Violence.
- Dagwood Endorsed Nuclear Power.
- Young’s Death Prompted Newspapers to Drop The Strip.
- The Strip Launched 28 Feature Films.
- The Strip Caught Flak For Using A Dirty Word in 2004.
Before Blondie debuted in 1930, cartoonist Chic Young had attempted to create a female-driven strip without a lot of success. Titles like Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora were some of the more unfortunate ideas, with Young preoccupied by the notion of having a vapid leading lady. For Blondie, Young initially pursued the “dumb blonde” stereotype before d...
For the debut of Blondie, Young’s syndicate, King Features, launched an aggressive mailing campaignin an effort to entice newspaper editors to pick up the strip. Editors first received a letter “announcing” the engagement of Blondie and Dagwood, which was followed by protestations from the Bumstead family and eventually a cardboard suitcase that ca...
He might strike you as incapable of tying his own shoes, but there was a time when Dagwood Bumstead carried real potential. Instead of his current working-stiff incarnation, Dagwood was originally heirto his billionaire father’s railroad fortune. But when he married Blondie in 1933, the Bumstead family effectively disowned him, fearing Blondie was ...
With the Bumstead family highly skeptical of Dagwood’s plans to marry Blondie, the would-be groom decided to earn their blessing by going on a hunger strike that played out in real time. For 28 days, Dagwood refused to eat and grew frail until his family finally consented to the marriage. The narrative stunt drew the attention of new readers, raisi...
For a good portion of the 20th century, it was seen as proper to depict married couples on television or in comics as sleeping in twin beds, eliminating any hint of carnal activities happening off-screen. (Or in this case, off-panel.) But Young thought this was juvenile andinsistedthat Blondie and Dagwood appear sleeping in the same double bed. Per...
While Blondie and Dagwood got along without incident, the same couldn’t be said for another couple featured in the strip’s early years. One of Blondie’s earlier suitors, Hiho, married girlfriend Betty and the two became supporting characters in the strip. Hiho and Betty had what could be considered a tumultuous relationship, with each threatening t...
After the atomic bomb was dropped twice to bring an end to World War II, American citizens understandably grew skittish about the ramifications of wielding such power. To ease their minds, the U.S. military partnered with Young to produce 1949’sDagwood Splits the Atom, a “fun” booklet that sees the character shrunk down in size to help readers unde...
Although Young’s son Dean had been working on Blondie and was prepared to take over writing duties when his father passed away in 1973, newspapers weren’t so sure. According to Young, more than 600 papers canceledthe strip when his father died, fearing it would suffer a drop in quality. Young persevered and eventually won over the naysayers, reclai...
In 1938, with Blondie firmly entrenched on the comics pages, King Features and Young agreed to license the strip to Columbia Pictures for a series of live-action feature films. The movies were shot quickly and economically with stars Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake portraying Blondie and Dagwood, respectively. The studio produced 28 features betwee...
With their relatively trivial subject matter, comic strips rarely have the potential to offend. A 2004 Blondie entry proved to be an exception. In the strip, a character uses the word “scumbag” to describe a baseball umpire. Readers wrote in to Dean Young to lodge complaints, with Mr. Young and his proofreaders apparently unawarethat “scumbag” is a...
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Dec 20, 2016 · The Blondie comic evolved over the years from a strip about a dumb blonde to a family cartoon with a lazy husband and a put-upon wife. This 1948 profile of cartoonist Chic Young describes how he came up with the ideas that kept Blondie funny.
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Jul 21, 2022 · Read the Blondie comic strip from July 21, 2022, and check out other Blondie comics by Dean Young & John Marshall.
Jul 17, 2005 · Now one of the most famous married couples in the world in one of the most widely read strips in comics history, Blondie and Dagwood are celebrating the milestone anniversary this summer in a...
