What was this comic?

December 21, 2015 7:19 PM

I have a scrap of a memory of a comic that I'm trying to identify. I think it might have appeared in the Chicago Reader sometime in the late 80's or 90's. I vaguely remember that I liked it a lot and that it might have been somewhat surreal. But the only actual memory that I can put my finger on is a panel where one of the character's for some reason showed up in the comic strip Blondie, and when Blondie addressed the character as Dagwood he replied "FUCK YOU BLONDIE!".

That's all I've got, does anyone know what I'm talking about?

posted by Reverend John to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

I don't have an answer, but googling "fuck you Blondie Dagwood" reveals a world of cartoon fan-porn I had just as soon not known about.
posted by Creosote at 12:17 AM on December 22, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'm on a train so my Googling is spotty but look up Liberty Meadows and see if it rings a bell. It was in papers in the late 90s. Frank Cho used to play off of other comic strips like that and I vaguely recall occasional Blondie "tributes."
posted by kimberussell at 4:50 AM on December 22, 2015 [1 favorite]

I'm trying the deductive method here by making a list of every Reader cartoonist I can recall. I started thinking about it before bed and I'm a little surprised by how few I can list.

Linda Barry
Heather McAdams
Matt Groening
P.S. Meuller
Bill Griffith
Chris Ware
Derf
Kaz

Of these, only Kaz combined vulgarity with a skewering of pop culture. Googling Kaz and Dagwood comes up empty though.
posted by hydrophonic at 5:33 AM on December 22, 2015

Maakies by Tony Millionaire ran in the Chicago Reader in the '90s. There's no search function on his site and googling doesn't bring anything up so far, but it's a pretty surreal strip which would totally have "FUCK YOU, BLONDIE!" as a punchline. Does it ring any bells for you?
posted by ejs at 8:47 AM on December 22, 2015

I dunno, I was a huge Maakies fan when it ran in the NY Press, and it seems very unlikely to me he would have had Blondie and Dagwood in the strip.
posted by languagehat at 10:54 AM on December 22, 2015

I can imagine this happening in Zippy The Pinhead (Bill Griffith) but I don't remember it happening.
posted by cleroy at 6:28 PM on December 22, 2015