Richard Arthur Allan Browne (August 11, 1917 – June 4, 1989) was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hägar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.

Early life and education

Dik Browne was born on August 11, 1917, in Manhattan.<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20071107084935/https://www.schattenblick.de/infopool/bildkult/comic/bcpo0008.html --> Browne slipped in undetected, and his courtroom sketches gave the New York Journal-American a news exclusive on the story.

During World War II, in 1942, Browne joined the United States Army, and was assigned to draw maps and charts for an Army engineering unit, eventually rising to staff sergeant.<!-- --> In his spare time, he created the comic "Ginny Jeep", a comic strip about the Women's Army Corps, appearing in Army and Air Force newspapers.

In the late 1940s, he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for Johnstone and Cushing, an advertising company, where, in 1944, he created the Carmen-Miranda-inspired Miss Chiquita trademark/logo, for Chiquita, and later, the Birds Eye bird, a Campbell's Soup kids redesign, and a Mounds candy bar ad.

From 1950 to 1960, he drew The Tracy Twins, a comic strip, for Boys' Life.

Recognition

He got the National Cartoonists Society's Best Humor Strip plaque in 1959, 1960, and 1972, and its Reuben Award as Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1962, for Hi and Lois. cartoonist Chris Browne, born in 1952; and Tsuiwen “Sally” Boeras-Browne. He died of cancer on June 4, 1989, at the age of 71, in Sarasota, Florida.

References

Sources

  • Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995.
  • Social Security Death Index
  • Dik Browne biography at Lambiek.net
  • NCS Awards
  • Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database