Dagwood Bumstead

Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in the long-running comic strip Blondie. He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J.C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. The ... more

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Chic Young

Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901 – March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist known primarily as the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in 1948. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1901, Young attended...
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