| Austin Briggs | |
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| Born | September 8, 1908 Humboldt, Minnesota |
| Died | October 10, 1973 (aged 65) Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Illustrator, Cartoonist |
Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973)[1] 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.[2] Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan.[2] 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.[2]
In 1969, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame.
Briggs died from leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.
- ^ "Austin Briggs - Illustration History". www.illustrationhistory.org.
- ^ a b c Walt Reed,Great American illustrators. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. ISBN 0896590755 (p.24)