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60-528: Journal-American may refer to: New York Journal-American , a daily newspaper published in New York City, New York, from 1937 to 1966 Journal-American (Washington) , a weekly newspaper published in Bellevue, Washington, from 1976 to 2002 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

120-449: A TV special focusing on newspaper comics that aired on CBS in 1980. They appeared in the beginning, singing a song to host Loni Anderson with other comic strip characters. Later on, after a short interview with Dean Young and Jim Raymond (who was drawing the strip at the time), they featured a short sequence where Blondie urges a reluctant Dagwood to get a haircut. The animation was produced by Bill Melendez Productions . Dagwood also makes

180-569: A brief career as a journalist during the final months of World War II. Leonard Liebling served as the paper's music critic from 1923 to 1936. Beginning in 1938, Max Kase (1898–1974) was the sports editor until the newspaper expired in 1966. The fashion editor was Robin Chandler Duke. Jack O'Brian (1914–2000) was television critic for the Journal-American and exposed the 1958 quiz-show scandal that involved cheating on

240-607: A cameo appearance in Garfield Gets Real . An animated cartoon TV special featuring the characters was made in 1987 by Marvel Productions (who had earlier collaborated with King Features for the animated series Defenders of the Earth , starring King Feature's adventure characters) and shown on CBS , with a second special, Second Wedding Workout , telecast in 1989. Blondie was voiced by Loni Anderson , Dagwood by Frank Welker . Both animated specials are available on

300-519: A cameo appearance. Blondie tells Dagwood that he is going to be late for work. As Dagwood rushes to the door, he knocks into the Muppet Babies, who have fallen into the world of the Blondie comic strip. Baby Kermit and Baby Piggy also parodied Blondie and Dagwood in one scene. The Muppet Babies series was produced by Marvel Productions, the producers of the 1987 and 1989 Blondie specials, and

360-629: A catering business in 1991. Dagwood still knocks heads with his boss, Mr. Dithers, but now does so in a more modern office at J.C. Dithers Construction Company, where desks now sport flat-panel computer monitors, and Mr. Dithers, when in a rage, attempts to smash his laptop into Dagwood's head instead of his old manual typewriter. The staff no longer punches in at a mechanical "time clock", nor do they wear green eyeshades and plastic "sleeve protectors". Telephones have changed from candlestick style to more modern dial phones, to Touch-Tone , and on to cellphones. The round bedside alarm clock has been replaced by

420-522: A check to pay for their honeymoon, the Bumsteads were forced to become a middle-class suburban family. The marriage was a significant media event, given the comic strip's popularity. The catalog for the University of Florida 's 2005 exhibition, "75 Years of Blondie, 1930–2005", notes: "Dagwood Bumstead and family, including Daisy and the pups, live in the suburbs of Joplin, Missouri ," according to

480-667: A fast-food restaurant, the Burger Barn. Occasional references are still made to Cookie and her babysitting. Daisy, which once had a litter of puppies that lived with the family, is now the only dog seen in the Bumstead household. Cookie and Alexander can be seen in modern clothing trends and sometimes use cellphones and reference current television shows and social networking sites, while talking about attending rock concerts of popular current rock, pop, and hip hop music acts. In this period, when in his basement woodworking shop, Dagwood

540-583: A gossip columnist and as an acquaintance of F. Scott Fitzgerald . William V. Finn, a staff photographer, died on the morning of June 25, 1958, while photographing the aftermath of a fiery collision between the tanker Empress Bay and cargo ship Nebraska in the East River . Finn was a past-president of the New York Press Photographers Association and was the second of only two of the association's members to die in

600-412: A long-running series of 28 low-budget theatrical B-features, produced by Columbia Pictures . Beginning with Blondie in 1938, the series lasted 12 years, through Beware of Blondie (1950). The two major roles were Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake (whose first starring role was another comic strip character, Harold Teen ) as Dagwood. Faithfulness to the comic strip was a major concern of

660-403: A more compact digital unit. Dagwood now begins each morning racing to meet his carpool rather than chasing after a missed streetcar or city bus. Even Mr. Beasley, the mail carrier, now dresses in short-sleeved shirts and walking shorts, rather than the military-style uniform of days gone by. During the late 1990s and 2000–2001, Alexander worked part-time after high school at the order counter of

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720-548: A situation compounded by the fact that television news was affecting evening newspapers more than their morning counterparts. The domination of television news became evident starting with the four-day period of JFK's assassination , Jack Ruby 's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and both men's funerals. New York newspapers in general were in dire straits by then, following a devastating newspaper strike in late 1962 and early 1963 . Journal-American editors, apparently sensing that psychotherapy and rock music were starting to enter

780-566: Is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young . The comic strip is distributed by King Features Syndicate , and has been published in newspapers since September 8, 1930. The success of the strip, which features the eponymous blonde and her sandwich-loving husband, led to the long-running Blondie film series (1938–1950) and the popular Blondie radio program (1939–1950). Chic Young wrote and drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when creative control passed to his son Dean Young . A number of artists have assisted on drawing

840-653: Is housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The photographic morgue consists of approximately two million prints and one million negatives created for publication, with the bulk of the collection covering the years from 1937 to the paper's demise in 1966. The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History , also at the University of Texas at Austin, has the Journal-American morgue of clippings, numbering approximately nine million. Because they are not digitized and because employees of

900-573: The New York American and several other newspapers across North America. The strip was only moderately popular in its first two and a half years, as interest in humorous "pretty girl" stories dried up as a result of the Great Depression, turning Blondie into a parody of those strips and taking a more melodramatic direction. In mid-1932, and considering the scenario to have run its course, Young briefly tried writing Dagwood out of

960-632: The New York Morning Journal in 1882. After three years of its existence, John R. McLean briefly acquired the paper in 1895. It was renamed The Journal . But a year later in 1896, he sold it to Hearst. In 1901, the morning newspaper was renamed New York American . Hearst founded the New York Evening Journal about a year later in 1896. He entered into a circulation war with the New York World ,

1020-593: The American before becoming president of baseball's National League (1934–1951), then commissioner of Major League Baseball (1951–1965). Frick was hired by Wilton S. Farnsworth , who was sports editor of the American from 1914 to 1937 until becoming a boxing promoter. Bill Corum was a sportswriter for the Journal-American who also served nine years as president of the Churchill Downs race track. Frank Graham covered sports there from 1945 to 1965 and

1080-403: The Blondie radio program had a long run spanning several networks. Initially a 1939 summer replacement program for The Eddie Cantor Show (sponsored by Camel Cigarettes ), Blondie was heard on CBS until June 1944, when it moved briefly to NBC. Returning to CBS later that year, Blondie continued there under a new sponsor ( Colgate-Palmolive ) until June 1949. In its final season, the series

1140-608: The Journal 's staff in 1905. In 1922, the Evening Journal introduced a Saturday color comics tabloid with strips not seen on Sunday, and this 12-page tabloid continued for decades, offering Popeye , Grandma , Don Tobin's The Little Woman , Mandrake the Magician , Don Flowers ' Glamor Girls , Grin and Bear It , Buck Rogers , and other strips. Rube Goldberg and Einar Nerman also became cartoonists with

1200-537: The Journal-American ' s demise was a power struggle between Hearst CEO Richard E. Berlin and two of Hearst's sons, who had trouble carrying on the father's legacy after his 1951 death. William Randolph Hearst Jr. claimed in 1991 that Berlin, who died in 1986, had suffered from Alzheimer's disease starting in the mid-1960s and that caused him to shut down several Hearst newspapers without just cause. The Journal-American ceased publishing in April 1966, officially

1260-631: The Journal-American . The Evening Journal was home to famed investigative reporter Nellie Bly , who began writing for the paper in 1914 as a war correspondent from the battlefields of World War I. Bly eventually returned to the United States and was given her own column that she wrote right up until her death in 1922. Popular columnists included Ambrose Bierce , Benjamin De Casseres , Dorothy Kilgallen , O. O. McIntyre , and Westbrook Pegler . Kilgallen also wrote articles that appeared on

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1320-556: The 1940s and 1980s. While in most countries the family name was "Parachoques", in Chile they had "Jeringuis" as a surname. When it ran in Spain, however, the original names were kept. In French-speaking countries, the strip is known as Blondinette , while Dagwood is known as Dagobert, a name which is still used in France and Belgium to refer to a kind of sandwich . Blondie was adapted into

1380-558: The August 1946 issue of The Joplin Globe , citing Chic Young. Several running gags occur in Blondie , reflecting the trend after Chic Young 's death for the strip to focus almost entirely on Dagwood as the lead character: During the early years of the strip, the Sunday installments were much in the vein of the then-popular genre of "pretty girl" strips, rather than spoofing them as in

1440-532: The Beatles made to New York in 1964 and 1965, including their appearances at Shea Stadium , various Journal-American columnists and reporters devoted a lot of space to them. Throughout 1964 and 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen's Voice of Broadway column, which ran Sunday through Friday, often reported short news items about trendy young rock groups and performers such as The Rolling Stones , The Animals , The Dave Clark Five , Mary Wells and Sam Cooke . The newspaper

1500-463: The Bumsteads' son in all the films; his character was originally called Baby Dumpling, and later became Alexander. Marjorie Kent (born Marjorie Ann Mutchie) joined the series in 1943 as daughter Cookie. Daisy had pups in the 12th feature, Blondie for Victory (1942). Danny Mummert, who had originally been chosen to play Baby Dumpling, took the continuing role of wiseguy neighbor Alvin Fuddle. Rounding out

1560-452: The Toiler , Little Annie Rooney , Little Iodine , Bob Green's The Lone Ranger , Believe It or Not! , Uncle Remus , Dinglehoofer und His Dog  [ fr ] , Donald Duck , Tippie , Right Around Home , Barney Google and Snuffy Smith , and The Katzenjammer Kids . Tad Dorgan , known for his boxing and dog cartoons, as well as the comic character Judge Rummy , joined

1620-405: The combined New York World Journal Tribune was delayed for several months after the April 1966 expiration of its three components because of difficulty reaching an agreement with manual laborers who were needed to operate the press. The World Journal Tribune commenced publication on September 12, 1966, but folded eight months later. Other afternoon and evening newspapers that expired following

1680-677: The consciousness of both blue-collar and white-collar New Yorkers, enlisted Dr. Joyce Brothers to write front-page articles in February 1964 analyzing the Beatles . While the Beatles were filming Help! in the Bahamas , columnist Phyllis Battelle interviewed them for articles that ran on the Journal-American front page and in other Hearst papers, including the Los Angeles Herald Examiner , for four consecutive days, from April 25 to 28, 1965. During every visit that

1740-477: The creators of the series. Little touches were added that were iconic to the strip, like the appearance of Dagwood's famous sandwiches—and the running gag of Dagwood colliding with the mailman amid a flurry of letters, which preceded the title sequence in almost every film. Columbia was careful to maintain continuity, so each picture progressed from where the last one left off. Thus, the Bumstead children grew from toddlers to young adults onscreen. Larry Simms played

1800-490: The daily continuities by having his parents send him on a cruise to Europe and replacing him as Blondie's boyfriend with a garage mechanic, but immediate reader response led to Dagwood returning by late August. On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie and Dagwood were married. After a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike by Dagwood to get his parents' blessing, as they strongly disapproved of his marrying beneath his class, they disinherited him. Left only with

1860-446: The daily continuities, including a series of different suitors, most notably Hiho Hennepin, a short character who played a similar role to the one held by Dumb Dora 's boyfriend Rod. In fact, Dagwood did actually not appear at all in a Sunday page until late 1931, and was only regularly featured in these beginning on January 29, 1933. Young drew The Family Foursome as a topper from September 21, 1930, to April 21, 1935, after which it

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1920-436: The decades, a number of details have been altered to keep up with changing times. The Bumstead kitchen, which remained essentially unchanged from the 1930s through the 1960s, has slowly acquired a more modern look (no more legs on the gas range and no more refrigerators shown with the compressor assembly on the top). Dagwood no longer wears a hat when he goes to work, nor does Blondie wear her previous hat and gloves when leaving

1980-509: The facility have limited time for communicating by email with people who are searching for very old articles, the people who are searching should know the date of a Journal-American article to locate it on microfilm. Two scoops of The Journal was the printing of the confession of Herman Webster Mudghett aka Dr. H. H. Holmes a serial killer of Chicago in 1896 and the Jacob Smith order of 1902 Blondie (comic strip) Blondie

2040-478: The footsteps of Young's earlier "pretty girl" creations Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora , Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead , heir to an industrial fortune. The name "Boopadoop" derives from the scat singing lyric that was popularized by Helen Kane 's 1928 song " I Wanna Be Loved by You ". Blondie and Dagwood debuted on September 8, 1930, in

2100-614: The fourth DVD of the Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack . Both of these specials were paired with other comic strip-based specials; the first special was paired with a special based on Cathy , the second one was paired with Hägar the Horrible . In Video (VHS) in UK: Leisureview Video in 1989. In a 1989 episode of the animated series Muppet Babies , entitled Comic Caper , Blondie and Dagwood make

2160-446: The house. Although some bedroom and bathroom scenes still show him in polka-dot boxer shorts, Dagwood no longer wears garters to hold up his socks. When at home, he frequently wears sport shirts, his standard dress shirt with one large button in the middle is slowly disappearing, and he no longer smokes a pipe at all. Blondie now often wears slacks, and she is no longer depicted as a housewife, since she teamed with Tootsie Woodley to launch

2220-532: The line of duty. The newspaper was famous for publishing many photographs with the "Journal-American Photo" credit line as well as news photographs from the Associated Press and other wire services . With one of the highest circulations in New York in the 1950s and 1960s, the Journal-American nevertheless had difficulties attracting advertising as its blue-collar reading base turned to television,

2280-406: The morning New York American (since 1901) and the evening paper New York Evening Journal merged into New York Journal-American . The Journal-American was a publication with several editions in the afternoon and evening. In the early 1900s, Hearst weekday morning and afternoon papers around the country featured scattered black-and-white comic strips, and on January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced

2340-607: The nation's first full daily comics page in the Evening Journal . On January 12, 1913, McManus launched his Bringing Up Father comic strip. The comics expanded into two full pages daily and a 12-page Sunday color section with leading King Features Syndicate strips. By the mid-1940s, the newspaper's Sunday comics included Bringing Up Father , Blondie , a full-page Prince Valiant , Flash Gordon , The Little King , Buz Sawyer , Feg Murray's Seein' Stars , Tim Tyler's Luck , Gene Ahern 's Room and Board and The Squirrel Cage , The Phantom , Jungle Jim , Tillie

2400-895: The newspaper expired. Unlike two other New York City daily newspapers, the tabloid New York Daily News and The New York Times , the Journal-American has not been digitized and can not be accessed in a database or online archive. The newspaper is preserved on microfilm in New York City, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas. Interlibrary loans make the microfilm accessible to people who cannot travel to those cities. The COVID-19 pandemic curtailed interlibrary loans, especially for researchers who need reels of microfilm that exist in very few places. On rare occasions, researchers have digitally scanned Journal-American pages, articles or columns, such as Dorothy Kilgallen's, from microfilm and shared them on social media and other websites. These are rare opportunities for historians to become familiar with this newspaper. The Journal-American photo morgue

2460-506: The newspaper run by his former mentor Joseph Pulitzer and from whom he stole the cartoonists George McManus and Richard F. Outcault . In October 1896, Outcault defected to Hearst's New York Journal . Because Outcault had failed in his effort to copyright The Yellow Kid both newspapers published versions of the comic feature with George Luks providing the New York World with their version after Outcault left. The Yellow Kid

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2520-467: The popular television program Twenty-One . O'Brian was a supporter of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his series of published attacks on CBS News and WCBS-TV reporter Don Hollenbeck , may have been a major factor in Hollenbeck's eventual suicide, referenced in the 1986 HBO film Murrow and the 2005 motion picture Good Night, and Good Luck . Ford Frick (1894–1978) was a sportswriter for

2580-524: The previous day's announcement by U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry that "a blue ribbon committee of scientists and doctors," in the words of reporter Jack Pickering, had concluded that cigarette smoking was dangerous. The Journal-American ' s feel of the pulse of the changing times of the mid-1960s hid the trouble that was going on behind the scenes at the paper, which was unknown to many New Yorkers until after it had ceased publication. Besides trouble with advertisers, another major factor that led to

2640-512: The regular supporting cast, character actor Jonathan Hale played Dagwood's irascible boss, J.C. Dithers. Hale left the series in 1945 and was succeeded by Jerome Cowan as George M. Radcliffe in Blondie's Big Moment . In the last film, Beware of Blondie , the Dithers character returned, played by Edward Earle and shown from the back. The Bumsteads' neighbors, the Woodleys, did not appear in

2700-485: The rise of network news in the 1960s donated their clipping files and many darkroom prints of published photographs to libraries. The Hearst Corporation decided to donate the "basic back-copy morgue" of the Journal-American , according to a book about Dorothy Kilgallen, plus darkroom prints and negatives , according to other sources, to the University of Texas at Austin . Office memorandums and letters from politicians and other notables were shredded in 1966, shortly after

2760-399: The same days as her column on different pages, sometimes the front page. Regular Journal-American contributor Jimmy Cannon was one of the highest paid sports columnists in the United States. Society columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul , who wrote under the pseudonym "Cholly Knickerbocker", became famous and coined the term "Café Society". John F. Kennedy contributed to the newspaper during

2820-495: The series until Beware of Blondie . They were played by Emory Parnell and Isabel Withers. In 1943, Columbia felt the series was slipping, and ended the string with It's a Great Life and Footlight Glamour , deliberately omitting Blondie from the titles to attract unwary moviegoers. After 14 Blondies, stars Singleton and Lake moved on to other productions. During their absence from the screen, Columbia heard from many exhibitors and fans who wanted them back. The studio reactivated

2880-432: The series, which ran another 14 films until discontinued permanently in 1950. Because some demand from movie theaters still existed, Columbia began reissuing the older films, beginning with the 1938 Blondie , and continued to release them in their original sequence well into the 1950s, when these were packaged for television by Columbia's video subsidiary Screen Gems . Singleton and Lake reprised their film roles for radio;

2940-578: The strip are a recurring licensing opportunity on their own. A counter-service restaurant called Blondie's opened at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure in May 1999, serving a traditional Dagwood-style sandwich. In fact, Blondie's bills itself as "Home of the Dagwood Sandwich". Lunch meats featuring Dagwood can be purchased at various grocery stores. In Canada, the Sobeys supermarket chain offers

3000-573: The strip celebrated its 75th anniversary with an extended story arc in which characters from other strips, including Curtis , Garfield , Beetle Bailey , and Hägar the Horrible , made appearances in Blondie . The strip Pearls Before Swine made fun of the fact that their cast was not invited, and decided to invite themselves. This cross-over promotion began July 10, 2005 and continued until September 4, 2005. Blondie has been translated to various languages. In Mexico and South America, it ran as Lorenzo y Pepita , being quite popular between

3060-450: The strip over the years, including Alex Raymond , Jim Raymond , Paul Fung Jr. , Mike Gersher , Stan Drake , Denis Lebrun , Jeff Parker , and (since 2005) John Marshall . Despite these changes, Blondie has remained popular, appearing in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries and translated into 35 languages. From 2006 to 2013, Blondie was also available via email through King Features' DailyINK service. Designed to follow in

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3120-526: The title Journal-American . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Journal-American&oldid=823746647 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages New York Journal-American Joseph Pulitzer's younger brother Albert founded

3180-491: The victim of a general decline in the revenue of afternoon newspapers. While participating in a lock-out in 1965 after The New York Times and New York Daily News had been struck by a union, the Journal-American agreed it would merge (the following year) with its evening rival, the New York World-Telegram and Sun , and the morning New York Herald-Tribune . According to its publisher, publication of

3240-589: Was also aired on the same network, CBS. Over the years, Blondie characters have been merchandised as dolls, coloring books, toys, salt and pepper shakers, paint sets, paper doll cutouts, coffee mugs, cookie jars, neckties, lunchboxes, puzzles, games, Halloween costumes, Christmas ornaments, music boxes, refrigerator magnets, lapel pinbacks, greeting cards, and other products. In 2001, Dark Horse Comics issued two collectible figures of Dagwood and Blondie as part of their line of Classic Comic Characters—statues No. 19 and 20 respectively. The Dagwood Sandwiches featured in

3300-582: Was heard on ABC from October 1949 to July 1950. Two Blondie TV sitcoms have been produced to date, each lasting only one season. Blondie and Dagwood were featured prominently in the cartoon movie Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter , which debuted on October 7, 1972. The movie was a part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series. Blondie and Dagwood made a brief animated appearance in The Fantastic Funnies ,

3360-488: Was inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame , as were colleagues Charley Feeney and Sid Mercer . Before becoming a news columnist elsewhere, Jimmy Breslin was a Journal-American sportswriter in the early 1960s. He authored the book Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? chronicling the season of the 1962 New York Mets . Sheilah Graham (1904–1988) was a reporter for the Journal-American before gaining fame as

3420-576: Was one of the first comic strips to be printed in color and gave rise to the phrase yellow journalism , used to describe the sensationalist and often exaggerated articles, which helped, along with a one-cent price tag, to greatly increase circulation of the newspaper. Many believed that as part of this, aside from any nationalistic sentiment, Hearst may have helped to initiate the Spanish–American War of 1898 with lurid exposes of Spanish atrocities against insurgents and foreign journalists. In 1937,

3480-455: Was replaced by the pantomime strip Colonel Potterby and the Duchess , which ran until November 3, 1963 (becoming a stand-alone strip in 1958). For years, the Sunday installments were noted for their histrionic plots, as well for having 12 panels, switching to the standard half-page format in 1986. While the distinctive look and running gags of Blondie have been carefully preserved through

3540-482: Was shown wearing safety eyeglasses. Dagwood sometimes breaks the fourth wall by delivering the punchline to the strip, while looking directly at the reader, as in the above panel. Daisy occasionally does the same, though her remarks are limited to "?" and "!" with either a puzzled or a pained expression. Strips in recent years have included references to recent developments in technology and communication, such as Facebook, Twitter, email, and text messaging. In 2005,

3600-499: Was trying to keep up with the many mid-1960s changes in popular music and its interracial fan bases. It published enlarged photographs of civil rights demonstrations, Dorothy Kilgallen's skepticism about the Warren Commission report as well as many reporters' stories on the increasing crime rate in New York's five boroughs. Most of the front page of the Sunday edition of January 12, 1964 ran stories that were relevant to

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