Blondie (comic strip) over all he surveys, with one notable exception—his formidable and domineering wife, Cora. Blondie and Dagwood's best friends are their next-door neighbors Herb and Tootsie Woodley, although Dagwood and Herb's friendship is frequently volatile. Lou is the burly, tattooed owner of Lou's Diner, the less-than-five-star establishment where Dagwood often eats during his lunch hour. Other regular supporting characters include the long-suffering mailman, Mr. Beasley; Elmo Tuttle, a pesky neighborhood kid who often asks Dagwood to play; and a never-ending parade of overbearing door-to-door salesmen. There are several running gags in "Blondie", reflecting the trend after Chic Young's death for the
Sylvia (comic strip) Blonde." The book's success led Tribune Media Services to distribute "Sylvia" to newspapers as a daily comic strip beginning in 1981. Hollander has published 19 Sylvia collections, including "The Whole Enchilada" (1982), "Tales from the Planet Sylvia" (1990), with an introduction by Barbara Ehrenreich, and "The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama" (2010), with an introduction by Jules Feiffer. Sylvia (comic strip) Sylvia was a comic strip by American cartoonist Nicole Hollander that offered commentary on political, social and cultural topics, and on cats, primarily in the voice of its title character, Sylvia. Distributed to