Birthday Salute to Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901 – March 14, 1973), cartoonist. He is best known as Chic Young, the creator and original artist of the comic strip Blondie."Chic Young was one of the most successful newspaper cartoonists of his time. His first syndicated strip, Dumb Dora ran from 1924 to 1930. He retired the strip to create a "pretty girl" comic (ala Polly & her Pals) titled Blondie. It was an instant hit. Young penned Blondie until his death in 1973. The strip is still in print, under the byline of his son, Dean." source (1)
Chic Young received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in 1948.
The United States office issued a Blondie postage stamp in the Comic Strip Classics series to commemorate the 1995 centennial of the American newspaper comic strip.
Blondie Postage Stamp
The Comic Strip Classics Postage Stamp series
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