“Our Lives Together” is a feature where I spotlight some of the more interesting examples of shared comic book universes. You know, crossovers that aren’t exactly crossovers. Today, we look at how the comic strip world helped to celebrate Blondie’s 75th anniversary together.
Generally speaking, comic strips tend to have a certain shelf life. Strips like Little Orphan Annie and Li’l Abner were MAJOR cultural institutions, but both of them eventually went under. Heck, The Katzenjammer Kids remained in print for OVER A HUNDRED YEARS before it, too, finally came to an end. Plus, you have all of those strips like Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Bloom County, and more that came to an end when the creator of the strip no longer wanted to produce them anymore.
The comic strip, Blondie, originally starred Blondie Boopadoop as a single flapper who got involved in a series of wacky misadventures. However, while “pretty girl” strips were very popular in the late 1920s (and Chic Young had had some success in that genre), the early series wasn’t that successful (Depression era readers were less interested in the carefree adventures of a “dance hall girl”), so Young pivoted, and had Blondie and her rich boyfriend, Dagwood Bumstead, get married. Dagwood then renounced his fortune, and the strip became a domestic comedy about a young married couple, and their young children. Dagwood became more of the lead character in the strip over the years.
“Our Lives Together” is a feature where I spotlight some of the more interesting examples of shared comic book universes. You know, crossovers that aren’t exactly crossovers. Today, we look at how the comic strip world helped to celebrate Blondie’s 75th anniversary together.
Generally speaking, comic strips tend to have a certain shelf life. Strips like Little Orphan Annie and Li’l Abner were MAJOR cultural institutions, but both of them eventually went under. Heck, The Katzenjammer Kids remained in print for OVER A HUNDRED YEARS before it, too, finally came to an end. Plus, you have all of those strips like Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Bloom County, and more that came to an end when the creator of the strip no longer wanted to produce them anymore.
The comic strip, Blondie, originally starred Blondie Boopadoop as a single flapper who got involved in a series of wacky misadventures. However, while “pretty girl” strips were very popular in the late 1920s (and Chic Young had had some success in that genre), the early series wasn’t that successful (Depression era readers were less interested in the carefree adventures of a “dance hall girl”), so Young pivoted, and had Blondie and her rich boyfriend, Dagwood Bumstead, get married. Dagwood then renounced his fortune, and the strip became a domestic comedy about a young married couple, and their young children. Dagwood became more of the lead character in the strip over the years.
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