Camera-ready comic art drawing for Blondie
Camera-ready comic art drawing for Blondie
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- Description (Brief)
- This pen-and-ink drawing produced for the Blondie 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.
- Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (1901-1973) began working as a comic artist in 1921 on the strip The Affairs of Jane. The strip was published by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. A few years later Young was hired by King Features Syndicate to draw the strip Dumb Dora, which ran until 1935. Young had modest success with other strips, but his debut of Blondie in 1930 far overshadowed his other artistic products. He drew the strip until his death in 1973.
- Blondie (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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- drawing
- Object Type
- Drawings
- Other Terms
- drawing; Pen and Ink
- date made
- 1966-02-24
- publisher
- King Features Syndicate
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16.5 cm x 48.4 cm; 6 1/2 in x 19 1/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.22395
- catalog number
- 22395
- accession number
- 277502
- Credit Line
- Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Popular Entertainment
- Family & Social Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Comic Art
- Communications
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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