Lyman Young (1893-1984) was an American cartoonist. Born in Chicago, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute, served in World War I with an ambulance company in France, and worked as a salesman before he started his cartooning career in 1924, taking over C. W. Kahles' The Kelly Kids . In 1927 Young created his first original strip, a spin-off of The Kelly Kids entitled The Kid Sister . He is best known for Tim Tyler's Luck, which he started in 1928; so popular was the daily strip that a movie was made of it in 1937 starring Frankie Young. When Lyman died his son Bob took over the strip. In 1977 he received the National Cartoonists Society Silver T-Square Award.
His brother Chic Young was also a cartoonist and created the long-running newspaper comic strip Blondie .
From the guide to the Lyman Young Cartoons, 1933, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
