Hagar the Horrible: the Epic Chronicles - Dailies 1985-1986

About

Dik Browne (August 11 1917 - June 4 1989) born Richard Arthur Allan Browne in New York City was a popular American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing Hagar the Horrible and Hi and Lois. Browne attended Cooper Union and got his start at the New York Journal American as a copy boy and later worked in the art department. He joined the army producing work for the engineering unit and created Jinny Jeep a comic strip about the Women''s Army Corps1 In the 1940s he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for an advertising company where he created the trademark logo for Chiquita. In 1954 Browne and cartoonist Mort Walker co-created 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. In 1973 Browne created Hagar the Horrible about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking.