Dean Young Quotes

God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monkey could do my job with the characters I have to work with. He left me this cast of characters and this dominant gene.

How could he not? ... Look at his head: He`s got all that hair sticking out. My dad realized he had certain intrinsic qualities, his hair, his eating habits. A lot of funny idiosyncrasies.

Are you kidding? These are cartoonists.

I think the durability of Blondie has to do with three things,

Eating, sleeping, raising children and making money: It`s the human experience. Everybody can identify with it.

Wealthy playboys and flappers just weren`t funny anymore, ... So (dad) got them married, and (Dagwood) was disowned by his millionaire daddy. When they got into the kitchen and started having kids, it took off like a rocket.

Then the Depression came along, and rich playboys and flappers weren`t funny anymore,

(Was it hard to turn the Bumsteads into a dual-career family?) I debated a long time before I did it, ... I wasn`t sure what business I wanted Blondie to go into. Catering was perfect. The eating business was real close to home.

(Some things haven`t changed. Dagwood`s unspoken motto remains: When in doubt, take a nap.) That`s still his favorite sport, ... He loves napping and eating. He has a black belt in buffets. And he still can`t get that raise from his boss. All those things are constants.

There`s going to be this juxtaposition of the comic strip characters you`re never going to see again,