Dik Browne

Dik Browne (actually Richard Arthur Allan Browne ) ( born August 11, 1917 according to other sources 1918 in New York; † June 4, 1989 in Sarasota, Florida) was an American comic book artist.

By 1942, Browne worked as an illustrator for Newsweek and from 1946 as a draftsman for the advertising agency Johnstone and Cushing. There he developed including the logo for Chiquita bananas.

On 10 May 1942 he married his wife Joan, with whom he worked at the New York News.

1954 Browne began his comic Hi and Lois for an idea of the comic artist Mort Walker. In Germany, the strips were published in the seventies in the TV magazine Gong Gong as a family.

In 1973, he created more than Hagar the Horrible comic book series, published worldwide in over 1,900 newspapers in 58 countries and has been reprinted in numerous editions of books.

Since 1988, his son Chris Browne Hagar continues.

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