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)
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