Blondie (comic strip)

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

Content

The comic began with the Dagwood Bumstead from face meeting ( in German: Dankwart Bumskopp ) with his father to give him his girlfriend Blondie Boopadoop, a carefree girl who likes to flirt and went dancing to imagine. The father does not like the girlfriend and it blocks a long time against a planned wedding. 1933 finds the wedding took finally after Dagwood has entered into a 28-day hunger strike. Due to the wedding but disinherited Dagwood and must henceforth his living in the 'J. C. Dithers Construction Company ' purchase.

Blondie and Dagwood live in a Vorstädtchen and get after about a year a son. The second child comes into the world in 1941. Although efforts are made to change Blondie hardly, you have some details adapted to the current events over the years. So Blondie is not a simple housewife anymore, but she and Tootsie Woodley open 1991, a catering company and need to organize work, family and household. The topics range from issues of parenting disputes with the neighbor Herb Woodley to the organization of the household.

Production and Publications

Chic Young left the drawings from 1950, when his eyesight waned, Jim Raymond, but wrote until his death in 1973, the stories. Then, his son Dean Young took over the work as an author. From 1981, awarded Michael Gersher, 1984-1997 Stan Drake the strips. Since 1998, the drawings by Denis Lebrun are manufactured.

From the fabric to the comic strips were produced 1937-1951 and over 20 B-movies from Columbia Pictures, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake played Blondie and Dagwood. Beginning in 1942, published his own comic books, a television series was produced in 1957.

Blondie was released in 2004 in 55 countries in 2,000 newspapers.

In German Blondie currently appears, inter alia, in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Darmstadt echo.