Chris Browne

For the documentary filmmaker, see Christopher Browne. For those of a similar name, see Chris Brown (disambiguation).

Chris Browne (b. 1952) is an American comic strip artist and cartoonist. He is the son of cartoonist Dik Browne and the brother of cartoonist Chance Browne. Browne writes and draws the comic strip Hägar the Horrible, which appears in 1,900 newspapers worldwide and is distributed by King Features Syndicate.

Born in South Orange, New Jersey 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. He currently lives in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Comic and artistic work

Hägar the Horrible is translated into 13 languages and appears in 45 countries. The little red-bearded Viking has also appeared in advertisements for IBM, Mug Root Beer, Skol Ale and in the animated opening titles of the NBC television show Caroline in the City. Hagar has appeared in his own CBS television special and as a feature of the new Universal Studios Theme Park, Islands of Adventure: Toon Lagoon. Hagar has been optioned for development as a live-action motion picture.

Browne has contributed cartoons to National Lampoon, Playboy, Esquire, Heavy Metal, The New Yorker and National Review. He is a contributing artist and writer to Sarasota magazine. He created the character Funny the Bunny, a one-legged rabbit, for National Lampoon, and Cruiser, a suave but shallow ladies' man, for Playboy. From 2000 to 2004, Chris and Carroll Browne wrote and drew the semi-autobiographical comic strip Raising Duncan. While Duncan was in production, Brown gave up the writing duties on Hägar, but continued to draw the strip.

External links

• Chris Browne's blog
• My Sketchbooks blog
• My Raising Duncan comic strip

Persondata
Name	Browne, Chris
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1952
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death