Blondie 1931 at her Best

Artists: Alex Raymond (All) , Chic Young (Layouts)

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Title:	Blondie 1931 at her Best
Artist:	Alex Raymond (All)
Artist:	Chic Young (Layouts)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	For Sale, please make offer or inquire
Views:	2,098
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	2/4/2013
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This is the Blondie for Sept, 17, 1931. My information is that Chic Young stopped doing the heavy lifting drawing Blondie by this time and was primarily using the great Alex Raymond. Comparison with earlier Blondie strips and the Dumb Dora (Definitely drawn by Young) strip elsewhere in my gallery, shows that this isn’t Chic Young’s work. This is as good as Blondie Boopadoop or Blondie Bumstead ever looked. She is a dream girl of 1931, I doubt any other character of 1931 surpassed her. The drawing is very crisp and well-defined, a feature which is largely lost in the printed version. I have a hardback book of this era’s strip and the loss is notable. I can imagine how much it degraded when put on newsprint.

Seeing this, I can finally see what Blondie’s distinctive hairstyle is supposed to be. Obviously there was one artist doing the Blondie character and another doing everything else, including Blondie’s mother. That’s OK for the furniture, but Mom doesn’t even look like she belongs in the same strip. I can just hear her telling her daughter, “Find a good husband before they assign an inferior artist to draw you.”

I am posting this at 100 dpi instead of the standard 72 to show the artistry to better advantage.

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	Robert Plunkett
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frank x townsondecker
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/4/2013

Very nice!!!

C E
Member Since 2006

Posted on 2/24/2013

I believe you are absolutely correct in identifying Alex Raymond's work on the images of Blondie in this strip. While this is contrary to most published opinions on the subjects of when Raymond began assisting Young and and to what degree he actually ghosted the strip - the usual claim being that Raymond only worked on the most minor of background details at this time, it is very obvious that his participation was much greater and began much earlier than most realize. And that is why Blondie was such a beautifully drawn character from the second half of 1931 until 1933, when Raymond went off to do his own strips under his own name.

Robert Plunkett
Member Since 2003

Posted on 2/24/2013

C E wrote:

I'm glad you agree. I wouldn't trust the published opinions instead of the evidence of my own eyes. Even if this Blondie wasn't by Alex Raymond, it still wasn't by Chic Young.

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