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Murat Bernard Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973), better known as Chic Young (pronounced "Chick"), was an American cartoonist who 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."〔(''Famous Artists and Writers''. King Features Syndicate, 1949. )〕〔(Hurd, Jud. ''Cartoon Success Secrets''. Andrews McMeel, 2004. )〕 ==Comic strips== Born in Chicago, Illinois, Young began drawing with the encouragement of his mother, who was an artist. 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. It was Lyman who spurred Chic to constantly draw. Chic Young grew up in a German-Lutheran neighborhood on the south side of St. Louis. After graduating from high school in St. Louis, he returned to Chicago where he worked as a stenographer while taking night classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1921, he learned that the Newspaper Enterprise Association was seeking an artist to do a comic strip about an attractive young woman. He headed for Cleveland and earned a salary of $22 a week while drawing ''The Affairs of Jane'' about a struggling film actress who dreamed of graduating from low-budget pictures to stardom. The short-lived strip, which began in 1921 on Halloween, came to a conclusion five months later on March 18, 1922. In the NEA art department, Young worked near cartoonist Gene Ahern, and the two often played pranks on each other. When a call came from King Features' J. Gortatowski offering an annual salary of $10,000, Young thought it was a prank and turned down the job. Looking for work later, he applied to Gortatowski and learned the call was legitimate.〔〔(Reynolds, Moira Davidson. ''Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980''. McFarland, 2003. )〕〔(Young, Dean and Melena Ryzik. ''Blondie: The Complete Bumstead Family History''. Thomas Nelson, 2007. )〕 After 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. It ran for only four months but landed him a job in the art department of King Features Syndicate. In 1924, he began ''Dumb Dora'', about brunette Dora who "wasn't as dumb as she looked." In 1927, Young married professional harpist Athel Lindorff (d.1979). In the spring of 1930, after six years of ''Dumb Doras increasing popularity, Young requested more money and strip ownership. This action led to changes, and Paul Fung took over ''Dumb Dora'' in April 1930 when Young dropped it in order to create a new strip. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chic Young」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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