Dean Young (cartoonist)

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 with Jud Hurd about his gag situations, his approach to the characters of Blondie and Dagwood, satisfying his readers and how Young in Vermont or Florida collaborated with Stan Drake at his studio in Westport, Connecticut using Exxon's Qwip fax machine:

I like to deal mainly with domestic situations, and I primarily stick with eating, sleeping, raising children and making money. These are my four mainstays. I'll go through these categories and try to have all my set-ups and situations come from these four primary concerns. These days I often do ideas that will appeal to more feminist-type women. I don't want Blondie just to be stuck at home with gags involving her to be limited to that setting alone. I want Blondie to be a complete woman, and I want readers to respect her not only for her ability to maintain a home, but also for her own mind and her own person. If readers admire a character's personality and the way he or she is, they have affection and love for the character... A lot of the changes in the way he [Dagwood] acts nowadays have to do with his relationships to women. I'm careful to see that he doesn't do things that might make a segment of women readers unhappy or upset... I don't want to make any group or persons unhappy with the way the Blondie characters behave. I want to make friends, not enemies. This was my dad's formula, and the advice he passed on to me in this connection has worked very well... I send him [Drake] the scripts and then when he gets his pencils done, he'll put them in the Qwip machine in Westport, and I can see them instantaneously on my machine in Florida. Then if there are any things we want to talk about, we can get together on the telephone. But by and large, there are not too many things we need to discuss on these occasions. I've got a Qwip machine up here in Vermont and one in Florida, so Stan and I can send graphics all up and down the East Coast of the United States. The telephone people hook a Qwip into your phone system. You make a phone call, put the phone down, and the Qwip computer transmits Blondie as Stan has drawn it.[1]

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