Blondie (1938 film) Ross Ford. Twenty-eight films were produced by Columbia Pictures between 1938 and 1950: "Blondie Goes to Hollywood," by Carol Lynn Scherling. Albany, 2010. BearManor Media. . Blondie (1938 film) Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. When the "Blondie" film series came to an end with "Beware of Blondie" in
Quincy (comic strip) Quincy (comic strip) Quincy is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip published from 1970 to 1986, created and produced by cartoonist Ted Shearer. The series, about an African-American boy being raised by his grandmother in Harlem, was one of the earliest mainstream comic strips to star an African American in the lead role, following "" (1968-1974) and "Luther" (1969-1986). Another predecessor, "Wee Pals" (1965- ), features an African-American among an ensemble cast of different races and ethnicities. The comic strip "Quincy", starring a 9- or 10-year-old African-American title character being raised by his grandmother in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood, debuted on