When Debbie Harry was being raised in Hawthorne (Passaic County), sure, she thought about being a rock star. Never once did she think of being a Comic Book Hero. But in 2023, out came Blondie: Against The Odds, a hardcover comic book, or Hardcover Graphic Novel as they’re calling it. Written by a team of 10 writers, illustrated by 13 graphic artists, in honor of the band’s 50^th Anniversary, Harry loved it because, as she said at the time, “one of the things that brought us all together as a band was comics and comic art. No matter how you slice it, Blondie has its roots deep into the genre.”

They came out of Portland Oregon in 1994 and eleven albums later, the alt-rock darlings of The Dandy Warhols got one of their heroes—New Jersey’s own Debbie Harry of Blondie—to sing on “I Will Never Stop Loving You.”