![]() ![]() ![]() Blondie became intelligent and sensible while Dagwood changed from straight man to clown.Ĭhic Young continued to draw the strip for another 41 years, re-working some of the same gag setups: Dagwood’s love of naps and enormous sandwiches, his grumpy boss, the mailman who always collides with him as he rushes off to the office. The couple moved to Joplin, Missouri, where their personalities underwent a major change. Dagwood’s wealthy parents disapproved of the girl, and when Dagwood married Blondie, they disinherited him. ![]() So he had Blondie meet Dagwood, an earnest young man whose father had made a fortune in railroads. But the cartoonist, Chic Young, realized he couldn’t keep Blondie funny with this formula. When Blondie first appeared, she was a flighty, not overly bright, gold-digging flapper with the last name of Boopadoop.įor its first few years, the comic strip featured her in variations of dumb-blonde jokes. While the character hasn’t aged, she has changed considerably from her earliest days. ![]() Blondie currently appears in 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries. The comic strip bearing her name also seems ageless despite having been around since Herbert Hoover was president. Blondie the cartoon character shows little signs of having aged since 1930 and appears to live forever on the sunny side of middle age. ![]()
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