More than any comic characters before them. Then, a miracle happened! Blondie and Dagwood fell in love. Blondie was headed for ignominious doom and extinction. The Blondie magic began to evaporate as more and more newspapers dropped the comic strip. With families facing disaster, farms being foreclosed, tenants being dispossessed, and nothing on the horizon but despair.this comic strip about a flighty blonde and her boyfriend's millions was not so funny anymore. And once, when he became lost in his own mansion, he experienced the humiliation of having to join a sightseeing tour to get back to the living room.Īll of a sudden, the Great Depression was upon us. For instance, his polo pony would stop and eat grass in the middle of the field during a chukker. Bolling not only owned all of the property on his side of the track, but also all the property on the other side of the us 3,000 more miles of the track!ĭagwood wasn't exactly a successful playboy. Dagwood, in those days, was the bumbling, playboy son of billionaire railroad tycoon J. Anyway, Blondie Boopadoop was a gorgeous flapper who had a ton of boyfriends.one of whom was Dagwood Bumstead. Blondie began her cartoon life in the same flighty, pretty-girl flapper image of my father's earlier strips (some of which, in his own words, were better not remembered!).įor historical purposes, they were: The Affairs of Jane, Beautiful Bab, and Dumb Dora (appropriately subtitled, She's Not So Dumb As She Looks). Blondie was created by my father, Chic Young, in 1930.
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