Blondie (1938 film) 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 1950, it was announced that it would be replaced with a series of "Gasoline Alley" movies. However, only two such films were made, "Gasoline Alley" (1951)
Rocky (comic strip) decided to draw a comic strip about his current situation to entertain himself and his friends, and did not initially take it seriously. The strip was picked up by the free newspaper "Metro", and moved from publication to publication because multiple newspapers canceled the strip in response to reader complaints over its profanity and sexual content. The strips have been collected in several books, first one published in 1999. Fantagraphics Books published two volumes of the strip, translated into English, in 2005 and 2008. Kellerman also publishes "Rocky" as a magazine, featuring comic strips and other material, including interviews with