Murat Bernard Young better known as Chic Young was born on this - TopicsExpress



          

Murat Bernard Young better known as Chic Young was born on this date 114 years ago. He created the popular, long-running comic strip Blondie. His 1919 William McKinley High School Yearbook cites his nickname as Chicken, source of his familiar pen name and signature. According to King Features Syndicate, Young had a daily readership of 52 million. 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. In the summer of 1930, working in his studio in Great Neck, Long Island, Young created Blondie. When it debuted September 8, 1930, it quickly became the most popular comic strip in America, gaining even more readers when Blondie and Dagwood married in 1933, followed by the 1934 birth of Baby Dumpling (later known as Alexander). When his first son, Wayne, died of diphtheria in 1937, Young took a years hiatus; the experience made it difficult for him to draw Baby Dumpling. After Young and his wife spent a year traveling in Europe, he began Blondie once again, quelling rumors that he might not return to the strip. Blondie is currently written by Chic Youngs son, Dean Young, and illustrated by John Marshall with his assistant Frank Cummings.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:35:20 +0000

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