Dagwood and Blondie (Picture 1) cartoon images gallery | CARTOON VAGANZA

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Dagwood and Blondie (Picture 1). Dagwood and Blondie cartoon images gallery 1. Dagwood and Blondie cartoon pictures collection 1. The "Blondie" comic strip was created by my father, Chic Young, in the year 1930. Blondie began her cartoon life in the same flighty, pretty-girl flapper image of my dad's earlier strips (some of which, in his own words, were better not remembered!). For historical purposes, they were: "The Affairs of Jane," "Beautiful Bab," and "Dumb Dora" (appropriately subtitled, "She's Not So Dumb As She Looks"). Anyway, Blondie Boopadoop was this gorgeous flapper who had a ton of boyfriends...one of whom was Dagwood Bumstead. Dagwood, in those days, was the bumbling, playboy son of billionaire railroad tycoon, J. Bolling Bumstead. In his town, J. 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 track....plus 3,000 miles of the track! Dagwood wasn't exactly a successful playboy. Dagwood and Blondie (Picture 1). Dagwood and Blondie cartoon images gallery 1. Dagwood and Blondie cartoon pictures collection 1. For instance, his polo pony would stop and eat grass in the middle of the field during a chukker. 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. All of a sudden, the great depression was upon us. 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 any more. The Blondie magic began to evaporate as more and more newspapers dropped the comic strip. "Blondie" was headed for ignominious doom and extinction. Then, the miracle! Blondie and Dagwood fell in love. Really in love. More than any comic characters before them. They made plans to get married, at the time a bold departure in comics. So, in true storybook fashion, love conquered all obstacles. After a tumultous engagement that included a 28 day, 7 hour, 8 minute, 22 second hunger strike, these two unlikely misfits tied the matrimonial knot in the memorable comic strip wedding scene of February 17, 1933. Dagwood and Blondie (Picture 1). Dagwood and Blondie cartoon images gallery 1. Dagwood and Blondie cartoon pictures collection 1.