The Resume

(January 9, 1901-March 14, 1973)
Born in Chicago, Illinois
Birth name was Murat Bernard Young
Created the comic strip ‘Blondie’ (1930)

Why he might be annoying:

He got ‘Chic’ from his high school nickname ‘Chicken.’
He worked as a postal clerk and stenographer before taking up cartooning professionally.
He turned down a $10,000 a year offer from King Features, thinking it was a joke by a fellow cartoonist.
He drew a series of ‘flapper’ strips, including ‘Beautiful Bab,’ ‘Dumb Dora,’ and, in its early years, ‘Blondie.’
In later years, he employed a number of assistant artists and gag writers without crediting them.

Why he might not be annoying:

He managed one of the few successful comic strip reboots when flapper Blondie Boopadoop and playboy Dagwood Bumstead fell in love and married, only for Dagwood’s millionaire parents to disinherit him, forcing him to become a working stiff (1934).
Dagwood and Blondie shared a double bed at a time when movies showed married couples in twin beds.
After his son Wayne died of diphtheria (1937), he had to take a year’s hiatus from the strip, since the experience made it too painful to draw the Bumsteads’ infant son, Alexander.
When Blondie and Dagwood had a daughter, over 400,000 readers wrote in with suggestions for the child’s name.
King Features President Joseph Connelly called him ‘the greatest story teller of his kind since the immortal Charles Dickens.’

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 46]
• Cartoonists
• I am from Chicago
• I Died in 1973 (Ranked: 72)
• I Outlived My Child
• My Nickname is Part of My Name [M-Z]
• Postal Workers
• Profiles 33751-34000 (Ranked: 33935)
• Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year Winners (Ranked: 1948)
• The Circle Of Life Comes To An End: Died On Pi Day (March 14th) (Ranked: 1973)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 51 Votes: 37.25% Annoying