Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator 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.
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Walt Reed,Great American illustrators. New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. (p.24)