Blondie
celebrates its 80th anniversary and we offer the first-ever
collections of her earliest days. Before she was a Bumstead, she
was a beautiful flapper named Blondie Boopadoop, who wanted to
marry young Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a vast railroad fortune. The
hitch? Dagwood’s parents won’t let him marry someone
not of his social class, and threaten to disinherit Dagwood unless
he marries someone else! This is Blondie like you’ve never
seen her—as she and Dagwood try to figure out how to start a
life together.
Coming Soon
Blondie Vol. 1: 1930-1933
by Chic
Young
Edited & Designed by Dean Mullaney, Introduction by Brian
Walker.
This book collects the complete pre-marital strips by Chic Young for the first time ever, beginning with the first ones from October 1930. The young lovers repeatedly try to thwart his family’s interference and the results are hilarious! Dagwood and Blondie hatch a scheme—the voracious Dagwood goes on a hunger strike for 28 days, 7 hours, 8 minutes and 22 seconds. This first volume chronicles the amazing and hilarious courtship, and concludes with the spectacular wedding in February 1933!
11" x 8.5" full color
hardcover-with-dustjacket, 280 pp.,
$49.99.ISBN: 978-1-60010-740-5.
Murat “Chic” Young (1901–1973) was born in Chicago but spent most of his childhood on the south side of St. Louis. After graduating high school, he headed back to the toddlin’ town of his birth, where he took night classes at the Art Institute. He eventually got a job in the NEA syndicate and created a couple of pretty-girl comic strips— The Affairs of Jane and Beautiful Bab—before his talents attracted the attention of William Randolph Hearst, for whom he created the very successful Dumb Dora, which debuted in 1924. But it was Young’s creation, in 1930, of the flapper Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead that put the cartoonist in the public consciousness forever. Blondie is now written by Dean Young, Chic Young’s son, and retains its status as one of the most widely read comic strips in history.