Cartoonist Chris Browne, Best Known For Hägar The Horrible Comics Strip, Passes Away At 70! RIP.
Daily Cartoonist reports.
Chris Browne – RIP
Cartoonist Chris Browne has passed away.
Christopher Kelly (Chris) Browne
May 16, 1952 – February 5, 2023
Chris’s sister announced the sad news through the National Cartoonists Society:
From Tsuiwen Browne-Boeras:
With much sadness, I am here to announce, my brother Christopher Browne passed away peacefully in Sioux Falls, SD after a long-term illness. After our father passed away, he was the face of our family’s cartoon strip Hagar the Horrible.
Chris is probably best known as the cartoonist for Hägar the Horrible. He was a part of the comic since it began in 1973, art assisting and writing gags for his father Dik Browne who created the strip. Since 1988, when Dik became to ill to work, Chris has been the main cartoonist for Hägar, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week.
Chris also assisted his father on the Hi and Lois comic strip from 1976 – 1988.
…Through the years he found time to contribute to [Funny, Playboy,] Heavy Metal, Esquire, Sarasota Magazine, The New Yorker, Dope Comix, and others. And even a children’s book.
In the 1990s and 2000s he concentrated on newspaper comics strips, not exclusively on Hägar…
…We send our deepest condolences to Chris’s family and friends.
On behalf of the IP team, I offer our condolences to the family, friends and fans of Chris Browne.
