Chic Young

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Murat Bernard Chic Young (born January 9, 1901 in Chicago , Illinois , † March 14, 1973 in Saint Petersburg , Florida ) was an American cartoonist and comic artist. He became world famous as the creator of the daily strip Blondie .

life and work

Murat Bernard Young, the younger brother of comic artist Lyman Young , grew up in St. Louis , Missouri , but returned to his native Chicago to study art there. He initially worked as a stenographer and published his first comic strip in 1920 with The Affairs of Jane for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1922 Young moved to New York and started the comic strip Beautiful Bab for the Bell Syndicate , which brought him an offer from the King Features Syndicate and which he broke off after four weeks. From 1924 he signed Dumb Dora for the King Features Syndicate . Since Dumb Dora , Young signed his family name with his nickname "Chic", which he received in high school . Dumb Dora was held by Young until 1930 and then passed on to his assistant Paul Fung , who continued the strip into 1935. On September 8, 1930, Blondie started and Young continued as a writer on the strip until his death, while he was replaced as an illustrator in 1950 by Jim Raymond due to his deteriorating eyesight . Blondie has been featured in over 1500 newspapers worldwide. In addition to the newspaper prints, there were also some German-language comic publications. Other comic releases of Young were the strips The Family Foursome and Colonel Potterby and the Duchess , but these never came close to the success of Blondie .

After Milton Caniff and Al Capp , Young, who according to Andreas C. Knigge liked to draw beautiful girls, was the third illustrator to receive the Reuben Award in 1948 , which the National Cartoonists Society had presented since 1946.

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The great illustrated Ehapa Comic Lexikon, Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 283.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 460–461.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comics. From the mass sheet into multimedia adventure , Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 58–59.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: 50 classic comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman , Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , pp. 54–57.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chic Young on britannica.com (English) , accessed February 19, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Chic Young on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed on February 19, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Chic Young on syr.edu (English) , accessed on February 19, 2013
  4. ↑ a b c d Andreas C. Knigge: 50 classic comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman , Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 57.
  5. ↑ a b Chic Young on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 19, 2013
  6. ↑ Chic Young on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
  7. ↑ NCS AWARDS at reuben.org (English) , accessed on January 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Young, chic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Murat Bernard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1973
Place of death Saint Petersburg , Florida