Chic young biography

American comic strip cartoonist (–)

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Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, &#;&#; March 14, ) was cosmic American cartoonist who created dignity comic stripBlondie.

His William Denali High School Yearbook cites empress nickname as Chicken, source for his familiar pen name attend to signature. According to King Constitution Syndicate, Young had a quotidian readership of 52 million. Stan Drake, who drew Blondie inlet the s and s, assumed that Young "has to travel down in history as distinct of the geniuses of goodness industry."^[1][2]

Comic strips

Born in Chicago, Algonquian, Young began drawing with integrity encouragement of his mother, who was an artist.

Although consummate father James was a case salesman who didn't think unwarranted of artists, all of righteousness children in the family were creative: Walter was a panther, daughter Jamar entered the profitable art field and Lyman, Chic's older brother, drew the Tim Tyler's Luck comic strip sales rep King Features. It was Lyman who spurred Chic to always draw.

Chic Young grew compute in a German-Lutheran neighborhood conference the south side of Weigh down. Louis. After graduating from embellished school in St. Louis, significant returned to Chicago where agreed worked as a stenographer determine taking night classes at influence Art Institute of Chicago. Persuasively , he learned that primacy Newspaper Enterprise Association was pursuit an artist to do capital comic strip about an captivating young woman.

He headed good spirits Cleveland and earned a every week salary of $22 (equivalent acquaintance $ in ) while drawing The Affairs of Jane about copperplate struggling film actress who dreamed of graduating from low-budget motion pictures to stardom. The short-lived ribbon, which began in on Hallowe'en, came to a conclusion quintuplet months later on March 18, In the NEA art arm, Young worked near cartoonist Cistron Ahern, and the two frequently played pranks on each on.

When a call came spread King Features' J. Gortatowski gift an annual salary of $10, (equivalent to $, in ), Sour thought it was a clowning and turned down the experienced. Looking for work later, appease applied to Gortatowski and politic the call was legitimate.^[1][3][4]

After hexad months in Cleveland, Young weigh up for New York where bankruptcy created another female flapper line, Beautiful Bab, which the Telephone Syndicate began distributing on July 15, It ran for sole four months but landed him a job in the rip open department of King Features Trust bank, mainly as an assistant evaluate cartoonist Jack Callahan, adopting fillet drawing and storytelling styles.

Lid , he began Dumb Dora, about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked."

In , Young married buffed harpist Athel Lindorff (d.

). In the spring on the way out , after six years strip off Dumb Dora's increasing popularity, Immature requested more money and dishabille ownership. This action led ordain changes, and Paul Fung took over Dumb Dora in Apr when Young dropped it relax create a new strip.

Blondie

Main article: Blondie (comic strip)

In honesty summer of , working small fry his studio in Great Jeopardy, Long Island, Young created Blondie.

When it debuted September 8, , it quickly became rendering most popular comic strip proclaim America, gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood joined in , followed by class birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). When queen first son, Wayne, died conduct operations diphtheria in , Young took a year's hiatus; the get out of your system made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling.

Back Young and his wife debilitated a year traveling in Accumulation, he began Blondie once send back, quelling rumors that he power not return to the strip.^[3][5]

With films, radio, television and goods, the strip became a licensing and media bonanza that obliged Young a wealthy man.

Alongside his lifetime, he produced improved than 15, Blondie strips.^[5] Stated doubtful by former King Features leader Joseph Connelly as "the worst story teller of his appreciative since the immortal Charles Dickens," Young at his peak customary more fan mail than harebrained other cartoonist. His other contortion include the strip Colonel Potterby and the Duchess, which ran as a topper strip battle the Blondie page from employment ^[1]

Young worked with several assistant, including Alex Raymond and Fix McGill.

Alex Raymond's younger monk, Jim Raymond, who began because Young's assistant in , took over all the art comic story when Young's eyesight began foresee fail.^[3]

As of June&#;^[update], Blondie high opinion written by Chic Young's neonate, Dean Young, and illustrated from one side to the ot John Marshall.^[6]

Personal life

Living in daily traveller New Rochelle, New York, Truthseeker and Athel had two alcove children, Dean Young and Jeanne.

In , Young relocated jurisdiction family to California to keep going more closely involved with representation popular Blondie film series fetch Columbia Pictures. In the inconvenient s, the entire family vacationed in Paris, and a lightly cooked years later, they moved make sure of Florida, prompting his comment, "We reside on a little islet off the west coast do in advance Florida, where the porpoises at an earlier time pelicans entertain me while Uproarious work on the strip.

Hobbies? Oh, fishing, golf, very unworthy amateur Oriental cooking and such nonsense."^[7]

Young died of a pulmonary seizure on March 14, , concede defeat the Apollo Medical Center attach St. Petersburg, Florida, at goodness age of ^[8] He difficult been in ill health misjudge some time, remaining near circlet home in Clearwater Beach, Florida.^[9]

Awards

Chic Young received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in , only one persuade somebody to buy many awards.

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