Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Blondie</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-02-24
name: label: publisher
content: King Features Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the <i>Blondie</i> comic strip shows the title character cooking a big dinner for her family, which they all enjoy and praise. Blondie is left disappointed when everybody disappears once it comes time to clean up.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (1901-1973) began working as a comic artist in 1921 on the strip <i>The Affairs of Jane.</i> The strip was published by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. A few years later Young was hired by King Features Syndicate to draw the strip <i>Dumb Dora,</i> which ran until 1935. Young had modest success with other strips, but his debut of <i>Blondie</i> in 1930 far overshadowed his other artistic products. He drew the strip until his death in 1973.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Blondie</i> (1930- ) is portrayed as a sweet, if not featherbrained, young woman whose 1933 marriage to the affluent Dagwood Bumstead made national news. The strip followed the young couple after Bumstead’s parents disowned him because of their aversion to Blondie. The strip continued to gain in popularity after the introduction of Blondie and Dagwood’s two children, Alexander and Cookie.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22395
label: catalog number
content: 22395
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.5 cm x 48.4 cm; 6 1/2 in x 19 1/16 in