13 Facts About Clare Briggs

Clare A Briggs was an early American comic strip artist who rose to fame in 1904 with his strip A Piker Clerk.

Clare Briggs had three brothers, who grew up to all have creative careers, one as a musician, one as a writer, and the third in advertising.

One day he ordered me to the blackboard to demonstrate a theorem, and while I was giving the problem a hard but losing battle, he remarked: 'Clare Briggs, sit down, you don't know anything.

Clare Briggs lived in to the suburban community of New Rochelle, a well-known art colony and home to a majority of the top commercial illustrators of the day.

Clare and Ruth Owen Briggs were together for 29 years and had three children.

Clare Briggs died ten months later, leaving his estate of $90,067 to Ruth Clare Briggs.

Clare Briggs was a popular lecturer, earning $100 for a single speech.

Clare Briggs accepted a five-week contract for $500 a week to appear on the vaudeville circuit in 1914.

The Mr and Mrs radio series, based on Clare Briggs' strip, starred Jack Smart and Jane Houston as Jo and Vi.

Clare Briggs's daughter, Clare Briggs, was a comic strip artist and had an eponymous strip syndicated from 1939 through 1941.

Clare Briggs used the name "Miss Clare Briggs" to distinguish her work from her father's.

Clare Briggs died at the Neurological Institute of pneumonia on January 3,1930.

Clare Briggs was a sweet and merry boy, if a rotten poker player, and the public, poorer for his leaving it, is a big winner in having him at all.