![]() Returning to New York, Young spent the summer of 1930 devising a new strip. ![]() Connolly agreed, provided Young could come up with an acceptable creation. When Connolly wired, pleading him to return, Young consented-but only for a bigger piece of the action and ownership of the new strip he would concoct. So Young packed himself and his wife off to the French Riviera to make his point. Young threatened to quit Connolly still resisted. Connolly, King's energetic and imaginative general manager, who was not inclined in the direction of salary increases. ![]() Dora proved popular enough to last longer than its forerunners, and when the 1929 stock market crash wiped out his savings, Young, thinking he had leverage, lobbied for more money.īut he met immediately a parsimonious obstacle in Joseph V. for six months until Maand then he'd come to New York and done Beautiful Bab for Bell Syndicate for almost a year (JApril 14, 1923) before joining the King Features art department in 1923 and, after a suitable apprenticeship, creating Dumb Dora on June 30, 1924. ![]() ![]() This was Young's fourth pretty girl strip: starting October 31, 1921, he'd done The Affairs of Jane at N.E.A. Blondie, Chic Young’s monument to syndicated newspaper comics, began as a "flapper" strip about a dizzy young blonde named, with unrelenting perspicacity, Blondie. ![]()
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