"Dean Young (cartoonist) Dean Wayne Young (born July 2, 1938) is the head writer of the popular comic strip ""Blondie"", which he inherited from his father Chic Young, who died in 1973. Since then, Dean Young has collaborated on ""Blondie"" with several artists Jim Raymond (1973–81), Mike Gersher (1981–84), Stan Drake (1984–97) and Denis Lebrun (1997–2005). Currently, ""Blondie"" is drawn by John Marshall, who works with his assistant Frank Cummings. In 1986, Young talked about his gag situations, his approach to the characters of Blondie and Dagwood and satisfying his readers. He also explained how he could be in Vermont"
"Sister"", a spin-off of ""The Kelly Kids"". Young launched ""Tim Tyler's Luck"" in 1928, and in 1935, he added a topper strip """". Young employed several artists, some of whom became famous and successful with their own strips. The illustrators included Alex Raymond, Burne Hogarth, Clark Haas, Nat Edson and Tom Massey. Tony DiPreta began his career doing lettering on the strip while Young played golf. Young lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. During the 1950s, when his son Bob took over the daily strip, Young retired to Florida, where he lived near his brother, and then relocated to California. He was"
"the song ""Barney Google (Foxtrot)"" by Billy Rose and Con Conrad was sweeping the country. It would become one of the best known, most iconic novelty records of the 1920s, and has been recorded by such famous artists as Eddie Cantor and The Happiness Boys, The Andrews Sisters, and Spike Jones: Other popular characters and concepts introduced in the strip about this time include ""Sunshine"", Barney's black jockey, a troublesome ostrich named ""Rudy"", ""Sully"", a monocled champion wrestler, and the mysterious hooded fraternity ""The Order of the Brotherhood of Billy Goats"", a parody of mystic secret societies. (There was also"
"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 year's 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. With films, radio, television and products, the strip became a licensing and media bonanza that made Young a wealthy man. During his lifetime, he produced"
"emphasized dialogue and realistic situations. The titular patriarch of the strip, long-suffering, cantankerous George Bungle, voiced the petty frustrations and joys of the common man during the Jazz Age and through the Depression. Comics historian Don Markstein described life among the Bungles: In the mid-1930s, Tuthill serialized exotic adventures and introduced a large supporting cast over the next several years—moves that were accompanied by a huge surge of public interest in the strip. Around this time, Tuthill began incorporating fantasy and time travel into the strip. Reprints of the strip were first featured in the comic book ""Famous Funnies"" beginning"
"first original comic strip, ""Innocent Hing"", had a short run. After working as an assistant on Billy DeBeck's ""Barney Google"" in the early 1920s, Fung moved on to do several other strips, ""A Guy from Grand Rapids"", ""Bughouse Fables"" and ""Gus and Gussie"". Scripted by Jack Lait, ""Gus and Gussie"" ran from April 13, 1925, to February 24, 1930, at which point Fung left Lait to do ""Dumb Dora"". When creator Chic Young left ""Dumb Dora"" and its topper panel ""When Mother Was a Girl"" to launch ""Blondie"", Fung became his replacement in April 1930. After two years on ""Dumb"
"titled ""Hap McSnap""), which may not have ever seen publication. ""Hap Hazzard"" featured an art deco-influenced style (the originals surfaced in the 1990s comic art market), with dialog full of puns and complicated wordplay, suggesting it too may have been written by Conselman. Cummin made another foray into comics in 1929 with ""Traveler in the Land of Trundletree"", a daily strip that may have been nationally syndicated, or only local. Cummin was a well-known artist-naturalist, who produced work for museums (including backgrounds and drawings for exhibits) and their publications, and was a benefactor and Life Member of the American Museum"
"orphanage for the outside world. When he teamed with an older sidekick, Spud, they began globe-trotting for a series of international adventures. Many tales took place in Africa, as noted by comic strip historian Don Markstein: In 1935, Young added a topper strip, """". Young employed several artists, some of whom became famous and successful with their own strips. The illustrators included Alex Raymond, Burne Hogarth, Clark Haas, Tony DiPreta, Nat Edson and Tom Massey. In 1972, Young's son, Bob Young, began sharing credit with his father, completely taking over the strip after Lyman Young's 1984 death. ""Tim Tyler's Luck"""
"The Bumpkin Billionaires The Bumpkin Billionaires was a British humoristic comic strip which ran from 1974 until 2000. It was drawn by Mike Lacey throughout except for the last years in ""Whizzer and Chips"" by Jim Hanson. The main characters in the story were a family of four country yokels — ""Ma"" and ""Pa"" and their children Billy and Daisy — who had come into a great deal of money (possibly inspired by ""The Beverly Hillbillies""). As the saying goes, however, ""money does not bring happiness"" and this particular family saw their wealth as more of a curse than a"
"Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip ""Blondie"", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to ""Blondie"" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's illustrated Dagwood sandwich remain obscure, it appears to contain large quantities and varieties of cold cuts, sliced cheese and vegetables separated by additional slices of bread. An olive pierced by a toothpick"
"comics appeared in daily newspapers, syndicated by King Features with production done in-house by a Disney comic strip department at the studio. The ""Mickey Mouse"" daily comic strip began on January 13, 1930, featuring Mickey as an optimistic, adventure-seeking young mouse. It was initially written by Walt Disney (who early in his career had aspirations to be a comic strip creator, attempting without success to sell a strip titled ""Mr. George's Wife"") with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith. Beginning with the May 5, 1930 installment the art chores were taken up by Floyd Gottfredson (often aided by various"
"at 488 Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw, near to Manchester (now Tameside), and was educated at King George V School, a grammar school in Southport. His brother Eric was killed in a naval action during the Second World War. He married Dorothy Mabel Jackson in 1944 and in 1947 they had a son, Peter. In 1949, in collaboration with Christian vicar Rev. Marcus Morris, he devised a new children's magazine, the ""Eagle"", which Morris took to the Hulton Press. In April the following year, a revised version of the ""Eagle"" hit the bookstalls. Its most popular strip was Hampson's creation ""Dan Dare,"
"Keen Teens"" which outlined how teens have ""won fame, renown, and often small fortunes"" by among other things, building collapsible boats, figurines and toys. ""The perfect gift for the alert teen-ager"" (Emerson Books, 1955). He also wrote ""Bug Movies in the Funnies"" a collection of his strips by the same name from 1930-34 (Dell Publishing, 1929), ""Fighting Heroes: Battle for Freedom"" (Whitman Publishing, 1942) and ""Men of Daring"" (Cupples and Leon Company, 1933). Benjamin Allen (cartoonist) Benjamin David ""Stookie"" Allen (30 January 1903 - 6 January 1971) was a cartoonist who created the nationally syndicated comic strip ""Mugsey"". He worked"
"and Riley's ""homespun philosophy of hard work, respect for elders, and a cheerful outlook on life"". A ""Fortune"" popularity poll in 1937 indicated ""Little Orphan Annie"" ranked number one and ahead of ""Popeye"", ""Dick Tracy"", ""Bringing Up Father"", ""The Gumps"", ""Blondie"", ""Moon Mullins"", ""Joe Palooka"", ""Li'l Abner"" and ""Tillie the Toiler"". Gray was little affected by the stock market crash of 1929. The strip was more popular than ever and brought him a good income, which was only enhanced when the strip became the basis for a radio program in 1930 and two films in 1932 and 1938. Predictably, Gray"
"the 1930s. By 1950 the weekly circulation of both reached two million. Explaining the popularity of comics during this period, Anita O'Brien, director curator at London's Cartoon Museum, states: “When comics like the ""Beano"" and ""Dandy"" were invented back in the 1930s – and through really to the 1950s and 1960s – these comics were almost the only entertainment available to children."" In 1954 ""Tiger"" comics introduced ""Roy of the Rovers"", the hugely popular football based strip recounting the life of Roy Race and the team he played for, Melchester Rovers. The stock media phrase ""real 'Roy of the Rovers'"
"or wooden skewer usually crowns the edible structure. ""Dagwood sandwich"" has been included in ""Webster's New World Dictionary"", and ""Dagwood"" (referring to the sandwich) has been included in the ""American Heritage Dictionary"". Dagwood sandwich A Dagwood sandwich is a tall, multi-layered sandwich made with a variety of meats, cheeses, and condiments. It was named after Dagwood Bumstead, a central character in the comic strip ""Blondie"", who is frequently illustrated making enormous sandwiches. According to ""Blondie"" scripter Dean Young, his father, Chic Young, began drawing the huge sandwiches in the comic strip during 1936. Though the exact contents of Chic Young's"
"more than 15,000 ""Blondie"" strips. Described by former King Features president Joseph Connelly as ""the greatest story teller of his kind since the immortal Charles Dickens,"" Young at his peak received more fan mail than any other cartoonist. His other works include the strip ""Colonel Potterby and the Duchess"", which ran as a topper strip on the ""Blondie"" page from 1935 through 1963. Young worked with several assistants, including Alex Raymond and Ray McGill. Alex Raymond's younger brother, Jim Raymond, who began as Young's assistant in 1935, took over all the art in 1950 when Young's eyesight began to fail."
"collected into trade paperbacks by Rebellion. Volumes published include: The ""Downlode Tales"" story arcs were collected into three trade paperbacks that came polybagged with issues 330, 334, and 335 of Judge Dredd Megazine. The stories illustrated by Andy Clarke were also republished by American company IDW Publishing in 7 volumes between December 2013 and June 2014; these were collected in a trade paperback published in the August 2014. Sinister Dexter Sinister Dexter is a long-running comic series in British comics anthology ""2000 AD"", created by Dan Abnett and David Millgate. Set in the near future, it features the exploits of"
"Squinch, Sylvester Shyster, the team of Dangerous Dan McBoo and Idjit the Midget, and the Phantom Blot. Two major artistic influences on the appearance of Mickey in comics are Floyd Gottfredson, who drew the Mickey Mouse daily newspaper strip from 1930 to 1975, and comic book artist Paul Murry, who drew Mickey stories from 1950 to 1984. In the mid 1930s original Mickey comic book stories were being produced in Italy and the United Kingdom for local consumption. Publishing Mickey comic book stories in the United States was pioneered by the third ""Mickey Mouse Magazine"" series (1935–1940). Initially published by"
"La Gatta. From late 1931 to 1933, Raymond assisted Lyman Young on ""Tim Tyler's Luck"", eventually becoming the ghost artist in ""1932 and 1933... [on] both the daily strip and the Sunday page"", turning it ""into one of the most eye-catching strips of the time"". Concurrently, Raymond assisted Chic Young on ""Blondie"". In 1933, King Features assigned him to do the art for an espionage action-adventure strip, ""Secret Agent X-9"", scripted by novelist Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond's illustrative approach to that strip made him King Features' leading talent. Towards the end of 1933, King Features asked him to create a"
"Dean, , and Jim Gary in Slesinger's New York studio. A movie serial was produced in 1942. ""King of the Royal Mounted"" started as a Sunday comic strip from King Features Syndicate on Sunday, February 17, 1935. The strip was initially drawn by the comics artist Allen Dean. Allen Dean previously collaborated with Zane Grey on the original ""King of the Royal Mounted"" in 1935 but quit when Romer Grey/Slesinger later took over production, as told to son Allen M. Dean Jr, who was born in 1942. A daily version was added in March 1936, at which point the Sunday"
"television. In 1950, NBC optioned Telecomics' product and repackaged it as ""NBC Comics"". In 1951, Slesinger acquired the rights to make a ""Blondie"" television show with Arthur Lake as Dagwood Bumsteadand his wife ""Pat Lake"" starred as ""Blondie."" at the request of ""Randolph Hearst"" who cared for her as if she was his daughter. Pat Lake nee:Patricia Van Cleeve Lake an American socialite, actress and radio comedian, was also ""Marion Davies""nice. Slesinger was completing the pilot episode at the time of his death on December 17, 1953. Amid the shock and confusion of his unexpected passing, the reels of the"
"Lyman Young Lyman W. Young (October 20, 1893 – February 12, 1984) was an American cartoonist who created the strip ""Tim Tyler's Luck"". His younger brother, Chic Young, was the creator of ""Blondie"". Like his brother, Lyman Young was encouraged to do artwork by his mother, who was a painter. After Young studied at the Chicago Art Institute and served in World War I, he worked as a salesman. He began his career as a cartoonist in 1924 by stepping in to draw C. W. Kahles' comic strip ""The Kelly Kids"". In 1927, he created his own strip, ""The Kid"
"pages in the centre of the comic at the same time. He has been the strip's main artist since then, during which time he has drawn more than 2000 individual strips for the weekly comic. He also replaced Dudley D. Watkins on Biffo the Bear after his death in 1969, and continued to draw the character through the 1970s, after his strip relinquished that cover of the comic to Dennis in 1974. In 1977, Gnasher was given his own strip in the Beano, Gnasher's Tale, which like the main Dennis strip was drawn by Sutherland. Similarly, when Dennis's pet pig,"
"slowly faded away and was carried by only a single paper when it was canceled in 1996. In 1937, a 12-chapter movie serial starred Frankie Thomas as Tim Tyler. The title of the Umberto Eco novel ""The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"" (2004) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired by H. Rider Haggard's novel She. Tim Tyler's Luck Tim Tyler's Luck was an adventure comic strip created by Lyman Young, elder brother of ""Blondie"" creator Chic Young. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, the strip ran from August 13, 1928, until August 1996. Lyman Young"
"The Fosdyke Saga The Fosdyke Saga was a British comic strip by cartoonist Bill Tidy, published in the ""Daily Mirror"" newspaper from March 1971 - February 1985. Described as ""a classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripe"", the strip was a parody of John Galsworthy's classic novel series ""The Forsyte Saga"". However, the slightly bizarre and strange antics of the characters and those around them had a Lancashire/Cheshire lean with mangles, chimneys and soot ever present. ""The Fosdyke Saga"" was the story of Roger Ditchley, a wastrel son of tripe magnate, Old Ben Ditchley, who was deliberately disinherited by"
"its long, complex storylines, snappy dialogue and meticulously illustrated comic-strip artwork by Hampson and other artists, including Harold Johns, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, Greta Tomlinson, Frank Bellamy and Keith Watson. ""Dan Dare"" returned in new strips in ""2000 AD"" in 1977 until 1979 and in the relaunched ""Eagle"" in 1982 until 1994. The most recent mainstream story was a Dan Dare mini-series published by Virgin Comics in 2007 and 2008. It was written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine and is a completely new and somewhat darker interpretation of Dan Dare. Since October 2003, however, Dare's adventures have"
"strips showing the series' beginning (from October 1931 – May 1933), along with a Gould interview, never previously published, by Max Allan Collins. Twenty-two more volumes in this series have published between 2006 and 2017, bringing the continuity to July 1967. Chester Gould Chester Gould (; November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the ""Dick Tracy"" comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains. Chester Gould was born to Gilbert R. Gould, the son of a minister, and Alice Maud (née"
"was popularized by Helen Kane's 1928 song ""I Wanna Be Loved by You."" On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie and Dagwood were married. After a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike by Dagwood to get his parents' blessing, as they strongly disapproved of his marrying beneath his class, they disinherited him. Left only with a check to pay for their honeymoon, the Bumsteads were forced to become a middle-class suburban family. The marriage was a significant media event, given the comic strip's popularity. The catalog for the University of Florida's 2005 exhibition, ""75 Years of Blondie, 1930–2005,"" notes: ""Dagwood"
"for a few months until ending in early 1931. Both strips' Sunday editions ran a topper called ""Dizzy's Eating House"", about a low-rate diner and its scheming owner. Chic Young briefly worked for Callahan as an assistant around 1923 after being hired by KFS. Callahan's style proved influential on Young, who further developed it with his own strips ""Dumb Dora"" and ""Blondie"". After a stint as an editorial cartoonist, Callahan revived the Piffle family format with ""Home, Sweet Home"", which ran between 1935 and 1940. After a period as a freelance artist, he found employment in the comic book industry"
"In 1957 the ""Daily Express"" approached Ian Fleming to adapt his stories into comic strips, offering him £1,500 per novel and a share of takings from syndication. After initial reluctance, Fleming, who felt the strips would lack the quality of his writing, agreed. To aid the ""Daily Express"" in illustrating Bond, Fleming commissioned an artist to create a sketch of how he believed James Bond looked. The illustrator, John McLusky, however, felt that Fleming's 007 looked too ""outdated"" and ""pre-war"" and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look. The first strip, ""Casino Royale"" was published from 7 July"
"existence by September 9, 1923. Tuthill continued to draw ""The Bungle Family"" for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939. This led to Tuthill ending the strip on August 1, 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned — syndicated by Tuthill himself — on May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, ""The Bungles Are Back!"" It ran for two more years until June 2, 1945, when Tuthill retired. Called ""the finest, most inventive and socially critical of the family strips"" by comics historian Bill Blackbeard, ""The Bungle Family"" was a popular domestic comedy that"
"Bumstead and family, including Daisy and the pups, live in the suburbs of Joplin, Missouri,"" according to the August 1946 issue of ""The Joplin Globe"", citing Chic Young. The Bumstead family has grown, with the addition of a son named Alexander (originally ""Baby Dumpling"") on April 15, 1934, a daughter named Cookie on April 11, 1941, a dog, Daisy, and her litter of five unnamed pups. In the 1960s, Cookie and Alexander grew into teenagers (who uncannily resemble their parents), but they stopped growing during the 1960s when Young realized that they had to remain teenagers to maintain the family"