Lyman Young

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Lyman Young (born October 20, 1893 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 12, 1984 in Port Angeles , Washington ) was an American cartoonist and comic artist and the older brother of Chic Young . His most famous comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck appeared under various titles in German-speaking countries.

life and work

After training at the Chicago Art Institute , Young served in the Army during World War I. After the war, he worked as a salesman before he took over the strip The Kelly Kids from C. W. Kahles , which he had created five years earlier, in 1924 . His first stand-alone strip was The Kid Sister in 1927 , an offshoot of The Kelly Kids . His most famous strip Tim Tyler's Luck , the story of an orphan boy who dreams of becoming a pilot and whose adventures have been in Africa since the early 1930s, debuted on August 13, 1928 and was continued by Young into the 1950s. Tim Tyler's Luck appeared as the Sunday page from July 19, 1931. In the course of time, Young assisted Alex Raymond , Burne Hogarth , Clark Haas , Tony DiPreta , Nat Edson and Tom Massey, among others .

In Germany, Tim Tyler's Luck first appeared as Tim and Tom in the Micky Mouse newspaper at the end of the 1930s . In 1951 Buchfilm Verlag published a brochure entitled Jochen und Klaus in Afrika . The Zauberkreis Verlag used the same title in the Kasperle series from 1958 to 1961 . Other German-language publishers that published Tim Tyler's Luck were Aller Verlag , Melzer and Feest .

In 1977 Young received the Silver T-Square Award from the National Cartoonists Society.

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 459-460.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lyman Young on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed November 10, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d Lyman Young on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on November 10, 2014
  3. ^ A b Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 459-460.
  4. ↑ Lyman Young on comicguide.de , accessed on August 24, 2020
  5. ↑ Lyman Young on syr.edu , accessed on November 10, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Young, Lyman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1984
Place of death Port Angeles , Washington