Austin Briggs

Austin Briggs
Austin Briggs
Born	September 8, 1908; Humboldt, Minnesota
Died	October 10, 1973 (aged 65); Paris
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.

Flash and Dale as drawn by Briggs for the December 4, 1941 installment of the daily newspaper comic strip Flash Gordon.

He died from leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.

References

Walt Reed,Great American illustrators. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. ISBN 0896590755 (p.24)

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