Background
Like his brother, Lyman Young was encouraged to do artwork by his mother, who was a painter.
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. West. Kahles" comic strip The Kelly Kids. In 1927, he created his own strip, The Kid Sister, a spin-off of The Kelly Kids. Young launched in 1928, and in 1935, he added a topper strip Curley Harper.
The illustrators included Alex Raymond, Burne Hogarth, Clark Haas, National Edson and Tom Massey.
Tony DiPreta began his career doing lettering on the strip while Young played golf. Young lived in Greenwich, Connecticut.
He was 90 when he died in 1984.