Blondie (comic)

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Blondie is a still published comic strip by Chic Young , the first episode of which was released on September 8, 1930. It is one of the most successful family comics, in its episodes the reader accompanies everyday episodes in the life of Blondie and her family.

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The comic begins with Dagwood Bumstead (in German: Dankwart Bumskopp) speaking to his father to introduce him to his girlfriend Blondie Boopadoop, a carefree girl who loves to flirt and dance. The father doesn't like his girlfriend at all and for a long time he is against a planned wedding. The wedding finally took place in 1933 after Dagwood went on a 28-day hunger strike. Due to the wedding, Dagwood is disinherited and from then on has to earn his living in the "JC Dithers Construction Company".

Blondie and Dagwood live in a suburb and have a son after a year. The second child was born in 1941.

Although they try hard not to change Blondie, some details have been adapted to current events over the years. Blondie is no longer a simple housewife, but she and Tootsie Woodley set up a catering company in 1991 and have to organize work, family and household chores. The topics covered range from raising children to disputes with the neighbor Herb Woodley and organizing the household.

Production and publications

Chic Young left the drawings to Jim Raymond from 1950 when his eyesight deteriorated, but wrote the stories until his death in 1973. Then his son Dean Young took over the work as a writer. Michael Gersher drew the strips from 1981, and Stan Drake from 1984 to 1997 . Denis Lebrun has been producing the drawings since 1998 .

From the stuff of the comic strips, Columbia Pictures produced over 20 B-movies between 1937 and 1951 , Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake played Blondie and Dagwood. His own comic books began to appear in 1942, and a television series was produced in 1957 .

Blondie appeared in 2000 newspapers in 55 countries in 2004.

Blondie is currently published in German. a. in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and in the Darmstädter Echo .

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