Austin Briggs

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 Reader's 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

External links

• Tegneseriemusee Biography (in Danish)
• Lambiek.net's biography
• Works by Austin Briggs at Project Gutenberg

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