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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dik Browne
(August 11, 1917 - June 4, 1989) was born Richard Arthur Allan Browne in
New York City. He was a popular cartoonist, best known for writing and
drawing Hägar the Horrible and for drawing Hi and Lois.Browne attended
Cooper Union and got his start at the New York Journal American as a
copy boy and later worked in the art department. He joined the army,
producing work for the engineering unit and created Jinny Jeep, a comic
strip about the Women's Army Corps. In the 1940s, he worked as an
illustrator for Newsweek as well as for an advertising company, where he
created the trademark logo for Chiquita. In 1954, Browne and cartoonist
Mort Walker co-created the comic strip Hi and Lois, a spin-off of
Walker's popular Beetle Bailey strip, featuring Beetle's sister,
brother-in-law and their family. Walker wrote the strip, which Browne
illustrated until his death. The series is now drawn by his son Chance
and written by Walker's sons. In 1973, Browne created Hägar the Horrible
about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking.
