Austin Briggs
Austin Briggs | |
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Born | Humboldt, Minnesota | September 8, 1908
Died | October 10, 1973 Paris | (aged 65)
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Cartoonist |
Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973) was a cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager. After working for a while at an advertising agency, he began providing illustrations for the "upmarket" pulp magazine Blue Book.[1] Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan.[1] In 1940, he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944; he moved on to creating illustrations for books and magazines such as Readers Digest and The Saturday Evening Post. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School.[1]
In 1969, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame.
He died from leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Walt Reed,Great American illustrators. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. ISBN 0896590755 (p.24)
External links[]
- Tegneseriemusee Biography (in Danish)
- Lambiek.net's biography
- Works by Austin Briggs at Project Gutenberg
- 1973 deaths
- 1908 births
- American cartoonists
- American comics artists
- American magazine illustrators
- American cartoonist stubs