Dik Browne
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Early life and educationEdit
Dik Browne was born on August 11, 1917, in Manhattan.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/> He attended Cooper Union for a year,<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3" /> then started work at the New York Journal-American as a copy boy. He later worked in the art department, drawing maps and charts.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3" />
CareerEdit
In 1936, photographers and artists were banned from the Lucky Luciano compulsory prostitution trial.<ref name="tulsaworld/browne-dies">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="upi/Hagar-creator-dead">Template:Cite news</ref> Browne slipped in undetected, and his courtroom sketches gave the New York Journal-American a news exclusive on the story.<ref name="tulsaworld/browne-dies" /><ref name="upi/Hagar-creator-dead" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="isbn=978-0-9717200-1-5">Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="nytimes/obit/dik-browne">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref name="mentalfloss/69674">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="nationalcartoonists/spotlight-dik-browne">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
From 1950 to 1960, he drew The Tracy Twins, a comic strip, for Boys' Life.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/> His work for this strip, and for the Mounds candy bar ad, brought him to the attention of King Features Syndicate.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/>
In 1954, cartoonist Mort Walker, seeing the Mounds candy bar ad,<ref name="mentalfloss/69674"/> enlisted Browne<ref name="mentalfloss/69674"/> to co-create the comic strip Hi and Lois, a spin-off of Walker's popular Beetle Bailey strip, featuring Beetle's sister, brother-in-law and their family. Walker wrote the strip, which Browne illustrated until his death. The series was later drawn by his son Chance, deceased in 2024, and written by Walker's sons. In 1973, Browne created Hägar the Horrible about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking. The comic was then produced by his son Chris until 2023. Both strips have been successful, appearing in hundreds of newspapers for decades.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
RecognitionEdit
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.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/> He was National Cartoonists Society president in 1963.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/> The National Cartoonists Society gave Browne a second Reuben Award for Hägar the Horrible in 1973, and three more Best-Humor Strip awards in 1977, 1984, and 1986.<ref name="isbn=978-0-515-10225-3"/> In 1973, the National Cartoonists Society gave him the Elzie Segar Award.Template:Cn
Personal lifeEdit
Browne and his wife, Joan, had two sons and one daughter. He died of cancer on June 4, 1989, at the age of 71, in Sarasota, Florida.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Cbignore</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReferencesEdit
SourcesEdit
- Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995. Template:ISBN
- Social Security Death Index
External linksEdit
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