In Dagwood's original incarnation, he had bangs slicked toward each side of his forehead, a fashion from the 1920s and '30s. The most plausible explanation is that he uses pomade and a few strands of his hair are resistant to it. Alliterative Name: Blondie Bumstead, née Boopadoop.
In the films she is played by a wire-haired white furry dog with dark patches.
Adaptation Dye-Job: Daisy is a short-furred blueish-grey dog in the comics. Media adaptations include a series of comedy films (and a long-running radio series) starring Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton, produced from 1938 to 1950 two single-season TV sitcoms, produced in 1957 (also starring Lake) and 1968 and two animated TV specials produced in 19 (from Marvel Productions, who had earlier collaborated with King Features on Defenders of the Earth), with Loni Anderson and Frank Welker voicing Blondie and Dagwood. 90 years have severely eroded the original Fish out of Water aspects of his character, and the strip as a whole is pretty much a Slice of Life comic at this point, its characters having been stuck at the same age since the early 1950s.īlondie's creator, Murat "Chic" Young, continued to write and draw the strip with the help of various assistants (including Alex Raymond) until his death in 1973, after which his son Dean took over, also in collaboration with a succession of assistants (currently John Marshall, previously Stan Drake and Jim Raymond among others). Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family. The strip was very different in its early years Dagwood was originally depicted as a playboy and heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disinherited after marrying Blondie, a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as being below their class. Beasley, Dagwood's fellow carpoolers Claudia and Dwitzell, and Greasy Spoon counterman Lou. Dithers and his Grande Dame wife Cora, local Mouthy Kid Elmo, hapless mailman Mr. 
The other recurring characters include friendly next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, Dagwood's Mean Boss J.C.
The household is rounded out by the family dog, Daisy. The couple's teenaged children are Alexander, who mimics his father in terms of hairstyle, and Cookie, whose appearance likewise resembles her mother's. He is Happily Married to Blondie, who runs a popular delicatessen and catering establishment. One of the longest-running (since September 8, 1930) and most popular Newspaper Comics of all time, and still fairly funny even after more than nine decades.īlondie centers around Dagwood Bumstead, a bog-standard middle-American salaryman with a strange haircut, a single button on his shirt, and a passion for food (particularly monstrously tall sandwiches).
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