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American Pop Art Ink on Paper Signed Chic Young

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American Pop Art Ink on Paper Signed Chic Young
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Ink on paper. American Pop Art School. Featuring a portrait. Signed Chic Young on the lower right corner. 17 x 12 cm (6.7 x 4.7 inches), frame: 31 x 25.5 cm (12.2 x 10 inches). PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate.

Chic Young (1901-1973) was an American cartoonist who created the 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." Chic Young received the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Blondie in 1948, only one of many awards.