Christopher Kelly Browne (May 16, 1952 – February 5, 2023) was an American

comic strip A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st ...

artist and

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

. He was the son of cartoonist

Dik Browne Richard Arthur Allan Browne (August 11, 1917 – June 4, 1989) was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing ''Hägar the Horrible'' and ''Hi and Lois''. Biography Browne attended Cooper Union and got his start at the ''New York ...

and brother of cartoonist

Chance Browne Robert "Chance" Browne (born June 17, 1948) is an American comic strip artist and cartoonist, painter, and musician. He was born in New York City. After his father Dik Browne died in 1989, Browne took over drawing the family comic strip ''Hi and ...

. From 1989 to 2023, Browne wrote and drew the comic strip '' Hägar the Horrible'', which is distributed by

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Life and career

Born in

South Orange, New Jersey South Orange, officially the Township of South Orange Village, is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village's population was 16,198, reflecting a decline of 766 (4.5%) fro ...

, on May 16, 1952, and growing up in suburban Wilton, Connecticut, Browne assisted his father on the comic strips '' Hi and Lois'' and ''Hägar the Horrible''. He contributed to ''Hägar'' from the beginning of the comic in 1972 and co-authored ''Hägar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook'' in 1985. When Dik Browne died in 1989, Chris Browne continued the strip, both writing and drawing, while Chance Browne took over ''Hi and Lois.'' Chris Browne also created two short-lived autobiographical comic strips: "Chris Browne's Comic Strip" (1993 – 1994) and "Raising Duncan" (2000 – 2004). Both include a Scottie dog ( Scottish Terrier) as a common feature. Browne lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he died on February 5, 2023, at the age of 70.

Comic and artistic work

''Hägar the Horrible'' is translated into 13 languages and appears in 45 countries.

References

External links

My Sketchbooks
blog
Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.My ''Raising Duncan'' comic stripBilly Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, Chris American comics artists American comic strip cartoonists 1952 births 2023 deaths Artists from South Orange, New Jersey People from Wilton, Connecticut