 Raymond was influenced by a variety of strip cartoonists and magazine illustrators , including Matt Clark , Franklin Booth and John La Gatta . From late 1931 to 1933 , Raymond assisted Lyman Young on Tim Tyler 's Luck , eventually becoming the ghost artist in " 1932 and 1933 ... [ on ] both the daily strip and the Sunday page " , turning it " into one of the most eye @-@ catching strips of the time " . Concurrently , Raymond assisted Chic Young on Blondie . 
