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
Thorn (comic strip) Thorn (comic strip) Thorn was a college comic strip created by Jeff Smith at the Ohio State University. In 1982, Jeff Smith enrolled at the Ohio State University to study cartooning. During his time there, he wrote and illustrated "Thorn". The eponymous heroine was modeled after his future wife, Vijaya Iyer, who he met at the University. The Bone cousins, Fone Bone and Phoney Bone, were based on his childhood drawings. In 1983, a compilation, currently out of print, titled "Thorn: Tales From The Lantern" was published, and was limited to 1,000 copies. In 1986, Smith submitted some strips to