Austin Briggs
Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973) was a cartoonist and illustrator. Austin Briggs was 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.
Austin Briggs
- Birthplace
- Humboldt, Minnesota
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Nationality
- American
- Born
- 8 September 1908
- Died
- 10 October 1973
- Occupation
- comics artist · illustrator
- Languages
- English
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Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. 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. In 1969, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Briggs died from leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.
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• Birthplace — Humboldt, Minnesota • Place of death — Paris, France • Nationality — American • Area — Illustrator, Cartoonist • Born — 8 September 1908 • Died — 10 October 1973
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Austin Briggs (1908 – 1973) was an illustrator. The birth of Austin Briggs is recorded in 1908, and the death in 1973.
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Austin Briggs is recorded as comics artist and illustrator.
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1908
Austin Briggs was born in 1908 at Humboldt.
1973
Austin Briggs died in 1973 at 5th arrondissement of Paris.
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- “Austin Briggs”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Austin Briggs - Illustration History. www.illustrationhistory.org.
- 2.Walt Reed,Great American illustrators. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. (p.24)
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