Dagwood, a lovable bungler whose well-meaning but usually inept behaviour reinforced the stereotype of the bumbling husband, lent his name to the Dagwood sandwich, a staple on restaurant menus across North America. A stay-at-home wife and mother for the first 60 years of the strip’s existence, Blondie opened a successful catering business in the early 1990s. Dithers, and Blondie’s levelheaded, often zany, handling of life’s minor and major crises.

The Blondie strip chronicled the everyday life of the Bumstead family, Dagwood’s comical misadventures with his irascible employer Mr. Hundreds of thousands of readers participated in a mail-in contest to name the Bumstead baby, and she was eventually dubbed Cookie. Blondie and Dagwood had a son in 1934 (Baby Dumpling, later called Alexander) and a daughter in 1941. The two were married, and Dagwood was promptly disinherited from the family fortune. Originally, Blondie Boopadoop was a flighty flapper and Dagwood Bumstead was the bumbling playboy son of a millionaire industrialist.

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