In 1927, Young married professional harpist Athel Lindorff (d. In 1924, he began Dumb Dora, about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked." It ran for only four months but landed him a job in the art department of King Features Syndicate, mainly as an assistant to cartoonist Jack Callahan, adopting his drawing and storytelling styles. Īfter six months in Cleveland, Young left for New York where he created another female flapper strip, Beautiful Bab, which the Bell Syndicate began distributing on July 15, 1922. Looking for work later, he applied to Gortatowski and learned the call was legitimate. Gortatowski offering an annual salary of $10,000 (equivalent to $152,000 in 2021), Young thought it was a prank and turned down the job. In the NEA art department, Young worked near cartoonist Gene Ahern, and the two often played pranks on each other. The short-lived strip, which began in 1921 on Halloween, came to a conclusion five months later on March 18, 1922. He headed for Cleveland and earned a weekly salary of $22 (equivalent to $330 in 2021) while drawing The Affairs of Jane about a struggling film actress who dreamed of graduating from low-budget pictures to stardom. In 1921, he learned that the Newspaper Enterprise Association was seeking an artist to do a comic strip about an attractive young woman. Louis, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a stenographer while taking night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was Lyman who spurred Chic to constantly draw.Ĭhic Young grew up in a German-Lutheran neighborhood on the south side of St. Although his father James was a shoe salesman who didn't think much of artists, all of the children in the family were creative: Walter was a painter, daughter Jamar entered the commercial art field and Lyman, Chic's older brother, drew the Tim Tyler's Luck comic strip for King Features. Stan Drake, who drew Blondie in the 1980s and 1990s, stated that Young "has to go down in history as one of the geniuses of the industry." Comic strips īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Young began drawing with the encouragement of his mother, who was an artist.
According to King Features Syndicate, Young had a daily readership of 52 million.
His 1919 William McKinley High School Yearbook cites his nickname as Chicken, source of his familiar pen name and signature. Murat Bernard " Chic" Young (January 9, 1901 – March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Blondie.
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