Cartoonist's view: To keep from missing the bus, ‘Blondie’ changes with the times

Dean Young has been working on “Blondie” since the early 1960s, then under the tutelage of his father, Chic Young, who created the strip in 1930. At Chic Young’s death in 1973, Dean took over and, after a rocky start, saw it running in more than 2,000 newspapers. Young has had his own assistants, including head artist John Marshall, who joined him in 2002. The following is edited from a phone interview with Young last week.