She wasn’t a dizzy blonde as much as she was a dizziness-inducing blonde, embodying the whirlwind lifestyle that the “It” girls of the era seemed to suggest.” (Dean Young, Blondie: The Bumstead Family History). “Yet her creator, Chic Young, recognized something more than a newsprint-ready blonde joke. The title character of the strip, Blondie Boopadoop, is a stylish fun-loving and man-chasing young flapper. But it was his 1930 comic strip Blondiethat brought Young worldwide recognition and major financial success. This time, the comic was about a brunette lady who, as it turned out, was not dumb at all. In 1924, Young came up with an idea for a new strip entitled Dumb Dora.
Luckily for him, when he later applied to Gortatowski, the offer was still on. Gortatowski, offering him an annual salary of $10,000, the cartoonist took it as a prank by his work colleagues and refused the offer. Unsurprisingly, upon receiving a phone call from King Features Syndicate’s J. His first comic strip The Affairs of Jane, about a low-budget film actress who dreams of becoming a real movie star, earned young Chic $22 a week. On the 9 th of January 1901, the American cartoonist Murat Bernard Young, better known as Chic Young, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
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