The Comic Strip Moves to the Suburbs: Settling For... -
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Published on: 3/20/2001
Last Visited: 1/8/2002
Today Blondie is written by Chick Young's son, Dean, and drawn by cartoonist Denis Lebrun.Although they are trying to up-date the strip, its course has been set.No essential changes in character have taken place even with Blondie's thriving catering business, or their 1995 stint with a marriage counselor.If Dagwood ceases to slumber on the couch, he ceases to be Dagwood.If Blondie becomes "liberated," she ceases to be Blondie.It's apparent that the Bumsteads are going nowhere- which is right where they've always been.
But why blame Chick and Dean Young?Unless we continually rediscover our resources, life can only get boring.I've seen this happen to my parents, the parents of my friends, and now to my friends who have become parents.Life dissolves into a series of four-panel cartoons repeated incessantly, social circles dwindle into safe, familiar faces, and it becomes more important that your neighbors be "nice" rather than "interesting."
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