A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

When some strip artist learns how to add the imperturbable aristocratic gesture to the Blondie world Chic Young will be finished. Because modern advertising has created a great "yen" for the aristocratic, and nobody has yet devised even the fictional satisfaction tor that nostalgia. Maggie, Blondie, and the North American woman have long been nourished by dreams of aristocratic life and love, yet the demand has not created a supply.
“The Comics and Culture” (1953), in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 33
Year: 1953
Chapter: Cartoons, Comics
Compiled by William Kuhns
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