Austin Briggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Austin Briggs

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1908

Place of Birth: Humboldt, Minnesota, United States

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1973

Profession: illustrator, comics artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973) 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.
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 Readers 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. He died from leukemia in Paris, where he had retired.