10 Facts About Dik Browne

Richard Arthur Allan Browne was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hagar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.

Dik 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.

Dik Browne worked as a courtroom sketch artist for the paper, covering the Lucky Luciano trial.

Dik Browne joined the army, producing work for the engineering unit and created Ginny Jeep, a comic strip about the Women's Army Corps.

In 1954, Dik 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 Dik Browne illustrated until his death.

In 1973, Dik Browne created Hagar the Horrible about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking.

Dik Browne died of cancer on June 4,1989, at the age of 71, in Sarasota, Florida.

Dik Browne was recognized for his work by the National Cartoonists Society with their Humor Comics Strip Award in 1959,1960,1972 and 1977 for Hi and Lois, and again in 1984 and 1986 for Hagar the Horrible.

Dik Browne received their Reuben Award for Hi and Lois in 1962 and for Hagar the Horrible in 1973.