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  Blondie (comic strip) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chic Young drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when the control of the strip passed to his son Dean Young.
Dean Young has collaborated with a number of artists on the strip, including Jim Raymond, Mike Gersher, Stan Drake, Denis Lebrun, and most recently John Marshall.
Chic Young was awarded a Reuben in 1948 for his work on the strip, whilst in 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blondie_(comic_strip)   (645 words)

  
 Chic Young's Blondie (Blondie Gets Married, Library of Congress)
Now written by Dean Young, Chic Young’s son, and syndicated worldwide by King Features Syndicate, it retains its status as one of the most widely read comic strips in the history of the genre.
Chic Young shied away from mentioning seasons or making consumer goods specific in order to reach an audience that might not own a car, the latest stove or refrigerator, or eat out regularly in restaurants.
All of the objects are the gift of Chic Young’s daughter, Jeanne Young O’Neil.
www.loc.gov /rr/print/swann/blondie/over.html   (1065 words)

  
 Chic Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Murat Bernard Young (9 January 1901 14 March 1973), known as Chic Young, was an American cartoonist known primarily as the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie.
The strip is currently written by his son Dean Young.
Chic Young's older brother Lyman Young was also a comic strip artist, most famous for the strip Tim Tyler's Luck.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chic_Young   (152 words)

  
 USS Saratoga Museum Foundation, Inc. - Remembering Chic Burlingame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chic's family has lost a great deal but I know it must be comforting to know just what he meant to so many people some of whom they have never met.
Chic's funeral Wednesday, a touchstone for many of us as we struggle with the tragedies of 9/11, was a fittingly elegant and glorious tribute to our fallen classmate, friend, and national hero at the Chapel on Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery.
Chic was a classmate of mine at USNA and I knew him a little...he had an innocent look, but sparkling eyes and a great smile...a very nice guy...my condolences to his family...rest in peace, Chic....
www.saratogamuseum.org /burlingame/chic.mhtml   (8394 words)

  
 Gospel Chic: Living the Young Women's Theme
Young Women must complete 3 required "experiences" for each value-these usually require the participant to first study scriptures about the value and record her findings and feelings in a journal, then practice applying the value in regular, real-life settings.
It is the ultimate goal of every Young Women leader to see a Young Woman arrive at the temple worthy and ready to continue her eternal progress by being endowed and later sealed to a worthy bearer of the priesthood.
Take advantage of your time in Young Women by preparing to receive the sacred ordinances of the temple, to be a faithful wife and mother, and to strengthen the home and family.
www.mormonchic.com /gospel/yw_theme.asp   (2154 words)

  
 Chic Young --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Young was born into an artistic family and worked at several jobs, including one as a stenographer in a railroad office, for a number of years.
It was in her chic, sophisticated screwball comedy roles that she especially caught the public's fancy, and she was forever identified as the runaway heiress...
The founder of Utah and patriarch of the Mormon church, Brigham Young was born on June 1, 1801, in Whitingham, Vt. He became a painter and glazier, and at 23, when he could support a wife, he married Miriam Angeline Works.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078056?query=young&ct=   (726 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: 'Blondie' Marks 75 Years on Comics Pages
Introduced by cartoonist Murat "Chic" Young on Sept. 8, 1930, "Blondie" is now written seven days a week by his son, Dean, who took over when his father died in 1973, and artist Denis Lebrun.
Dean Young, 65, has shepherded the Bumsteads through myriad modern day travails and family upheavals, including Blondie going off to work in her own successful catering business, a plot twist that made international headlines in 1991.
Young attributes the strip's longevity to the quality of the art and the gags, but also to Blondie and Dagwood's strong bond over all these years.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/jul/16/071609672.html   (724 words)

  
 Chic Young - TheBestLinks.com - January 9, March 14, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1901, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chic Young, January 9, March 14, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, 1901...
Chic Young (9 January 1901-14 March 1973) is the byname of Murat Bernard Young, the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie.
His older brother Lyman Young was also a comic strip artist, most famous for the strip Tim Tyler's Luck.
www.thebestlinks.com /Chic_Young.html   (124 words)

  
 Strictly Slots
Young introduced the strip's main character in 1930 as "Blondie Boopadoop," a ditzy, '20s-style "flapper" with a full stable of boyfriends-one being Dagwood Bumstead, the son and heir of wealthy railroad tycoon J. Bolling Bumstead.
Chic Young responded by transforming Dagwood's character into Everyman, by having him fall in love with Blondie and marry her-a first for comic-strip characters-in defiance of the wishes of his stuffy parents, who promised to disinherit him and leave him penniless as a result.
Perhaps that's why Dean Young, when approached with the idea by Bally Gaming, was so enthusiastic-not only agreeing to let Bally license the name and images, but offering to help in the creation of the slot games themselves.
www.strictlyslots.com /archive/0102ss/blondie.html   (1390 words)

  
 75 years of blond curls and big sandwiches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
But Young's affection for his characters notwithstanding, he's the first to give full credit to his father for breathing life into them.
So, Young did something fairly radical for the period - he got his characters hitched and built the story around their new domestic life.
Young is particularly sensitive to the charge, given the fight for shrinking real estate on newspaper comic pages.
www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0903blondie0903.html   (1515 words)

  
 Floridian: 75 years of Bumstead bliss
Chic Young's inspiration was to have them marry, even though Dagwood's father disinherited them and Dagwood had to take a job.
When Chic Young died of emphysema in 1973, the strip was so strongly identified with his name that 600 newspapers dropped it.
Young says he enjoys some cartoons with political edge, such as those by his friend Paul Szep, the St. Petersburg Times contributor who won two Pulitzer Prizes at the Boston Globe, and the Shoe strip while it was done by its originator, the late Jeff MacNelly.
www.sptimes.com /2005/08/16/Floridian/75_years_of_Bumstead_.shtml   (1287 words)

  
 'Blondie's' Funniest Friends Help Strip Mark a Milestone
Introduced by cartoonist Murat Bernard "Chic" Young on Sept. 8, 1930, "Blondie" is now written seven days a week by his son, Dean, who took over when his father died in 1973, and artist Denis Lebrun.
Dean Young, 65, has shepherded the Bumsteads through myriad modern travails and family upheavals, including Blondie going off to work in her own successful catering business, a plot twist that made international headlines in 1991.
The first time, during the Depression when hard-luck Americans tired of the flapper comics of the day, Chic Young solved the problem by having Blondie and Dagwood marry and transition to a life of domesticity.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072601664_pf.html   (649 words)

  
 Herald Sun: Blondie turns 75 (archived)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Young said he tries to keep the strip contemporary with the characters using computers and cell phones.
Young said at the heart of the strip's success was the couple's relationship.
Young said he hopes Blondie can continue for many more years.
www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,16085836^10431,00.html   (611 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | Archives | Forever Young: Twentysomething Aficionados
Like many young men around the country, Peterson says that smoking cigars, at least in his case, is not a way of making any political or social statement; it is just a pleasure he enjoys, especially among friends.
For the ultimate in cigar chic, young San Francisco aficionados with the means to splurge gather at the bar of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, on the slope up to Nob Hill.
In these troubled times, when young people across the country see their lives and relationships strained by economic uncertainty, political division, racial tension, urban violence and the threat of AIDS, cigars offer them one small, reliable moment of pleasure, to be enjoyed alone or with friends of similar spirit.
www.winespectator.com /Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article_Print/0,2812,671,00.html   (4589 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dean Young, 66, took over the strip in 1973 when his father died.
Chic Young had worked on other strips including “Beautiful Bab” and “Dumb Dora” before “Blondie.”; When the strip started on September 8, 1930, its heroine was Blondie Boopadoop, who was pretty and single.
In 1932, Chic Young had Blondie and Dagwood fall in love.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050730/asp/foreign/story_5052791.asp   (327 words)

  
 The Hindu : Young World : Seventy-five years with Blondie and the gang
Blondie, created by Murat Bernard `Chic' Young, made its debut on September 8, 1930.
`Chic' Young drew Blondie until his death in 1973, when his son Dean took over.
Dean Young collaborated with a number of artists in producing the strip over the years.
www.hindu.com /yw/2005/11/04/stories/2005110400100800.htm   (538 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cartoonist Chic Young had a knack for drawing pretty girls, and from the early 1920s on, he found himself drawing comic strips about them.
Young was a man with an excellent gag sense; he saw to it that nothing got in the way of getting each days joke across.
Young was a shrewd packager of his strip, making sure that the various assistants and ghosts he hired stuck to the uncluttered, minimalist style he had perfected.
www.askart.com /artist/Y/chic_young.asp?ID=20096   (724 words)

  
 International Youth Foundation
“Chic Dambach brings a wonderful mix of public and private sector experiences and will be a key leader and creative catalyst in helping IYF continue its expansion into new countries and new program initiatives,” said Bill Reese, IYF’s Chief Operating Officer.
Chic Dambach developed a special project to assist Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide in 1994, and he created an Emergency Response Network to link former Peace Corps volunteers with organizations that need them for special projects worldwide.
Currently operating in nearly 50 countries and territories, IYF and its partners have helped more than 26 million young people gain the life skills, training and opportunities critical to their success.
www.iyfnet.org /document.cfm/30/551   (691 words)

  
 Chic Young - Glassmaker
Chic Young, born in 1930, joined John Moncrieff Glassworks of Perth, in 1946 as an apprentice glassblower under Paul Ysart.
Much of the work produced by Chic at Perthshire had an impressed “P”, but this is often vague and indeed was absent from time to time.
Further detailed study of Ysart style of glass should bring more of Chic Young’s work to the surface and place him as one of the most important “Ysart style” glassmakers.
www.ysartglass.com /Otherglass/ChicYoung.htm   (418 words)

  
 The Capital Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TV icon Chic Young stands with two vintage television sets he hopes to install in a Madison TV and radio museum someday.
CHIC YOUNG, who by one reliable account (his), installed the very first television set in Madison, came full circle over the weekend when he received a lifetime achievement award from WYOU, the city's public access cable channel.
Young received his honor from Mayor Dave Cieslewicz at the WYOU Awards Saturday night at the Overture Center.
www.madison.com /tct/opinion/column/moe/index.php?ntid=36613&ntpid=2   (840 words)

  
 COMICON.com: GARFIELD, HAGAR, & PRES. BUSH TO CELEBRATE BLONDIE'S 75th
Chic Young worked on the strip for over 40 years.
When he died in 1973, his son Dean Young took over the writing of the strip with Denis Lebrun handling the illustrations.
Speaking for myself, while I wasn't crazy about Chic Young's creation as a young'un, over the years I've come to think of it as a "minor classic." It's impressive the way Nancy is impressive: seeing how many variations the artist could do on a few basic themes.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=004033   (432 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: In Damascus, The Ancient Is Now the Chic
On a Thursday night, as a Cuban band plays salsa in one corner, revelers dine under elaborately painted cedar ceilings and dance near a courtyard fountain covered in floating lilies.
But Basma Hiraki, a chic 33-year-old celebrating her birthday with a dozen friends, says she chose the restaurant more for its sense of history than for its hipness.
The number of new applications is spiking, he said, and almost all are from young Syrians.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49993-2004Sep25?language=printer   (1496 words)

  
 CARTOONIST PROfiles Interview
Since Dean Young happened to be in Vermont at the time, it was necessary for us to talk with him by phone about Stan's new chores and about how the strip continues to be contemporary.
Young: Yes--a lot of the changes in the way he acts nowadays have to do with his relationships to women.
Chic Young created this whole thing and has got to go down in history as one of the geniuses of the industry.
www.drake.org /Stan/CarPro86/Article.html   (3632 words)

  
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The Library of Congress will celebrate the recent acquisition of a large group of important original works by cartoonist Chic Young, creator of "Blondie", one of the world’s most famous comic strips, with an exhibition in the Swann Gallery.
Chic Young (1901-1973), born Murat Bernard Young in Chicago, grew up in St. Louis with a dream of becoming a cartoonist.
Young’s high school yearbook lists his hobby as "drawing cartoons," and his greatest desire as "to be funny." He certainly achieved that goal, drawing "Blondie" seven days a week from September 8, 1930, until his death in 1973.
www.kingfeatures.com /pressrm/rel_12_15_6_2000.htm   (747 words)

  
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When Chic died in 1973, Dean inherited the strip and continued to work with Jim Raymond, Chic's long-time artist.
Young recently launched http://www.blondie.com, Blondie's very own place in cyberspace.
As for any resemblance to Dagwood Bumstead, Dean Young replies, "Part of the success of the strip is that I've always thought of myself as an ordinary family person, and I think the strip reflects that.
www.kingfeatures.com /features/comics/blondie/bioMaina.htm   (842 words)

  
 At 75, Blondie's more modern now, but still ageless | csmonitor.com
Undaunted, the couple settled into middle-class life, she as a homemaker and mother, he as the long-suffering employee of an irascible boss, Mr.
Ever since cartoonist Chic Young created Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead in 1930, their domestic comedy has won readers' hearts by playing on four universal themes: eating, sleeping, raising children, and earning a living.
Young's death in 1973, his son, Dean, took over.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0831/p13s01-alar.htm   (1153 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Entertainment - 'Blondie's' 1930s roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dean Young, "Blondie's" writer (and son of Chic Young, the strip's creator, who died in 1973) has arranged for the strip's All-American stars to celebrate a 75th-anniversary party on Sept. 4 in the pages of its 2,300 client newspapers.
Still, Young wants no one to think "Blondie" is frozen at any past point in time, however idyllic, because in the comics world, that's code for oblivion.
Chic Young loved flappers, and "Blondie" was his fourth flapper strip, following "The Affairs of Jane," "Beautiful Bab" and "Dumb Dora."
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/story/333276p-284791c.html   (729 words)

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