Chris Browne obit

Chris Browne – RIP

 

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We are sad to announce the passing of one of our longtime valued members of the NCS community, Chris Browne. Hagar had only just celebrated his 50th anniversary the day before.

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.

Besides drawing Hagar, Chris drew and illustrated children's books. He always had a sketchbook in hand and loved to draw for people. He will be very much missed by his family and friends as well as his fans throughout the world.

We'll miss his talent and his gentle and kind soul.

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.

Being an assistant left time for Chris to contribute his own cartoons and comic strips to magazines and comix books and that is where I first saw his talents.

Then in the late 1970s well into the 1980s Chris was a regular contributor to the Playboy Funnies pages creating an assortment of strips and characters. Chris wasn’t as lewd as most of the others in the Playboy Funnies.

Through the years he found time to contribute to 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.

Chris Browne’s Comic Strip ran daily in 1993 -1994. Raising Duncan ran from 2000 to 2005, and even had an NEA Christmas edition in 2002.

Born in South Orange, New Jersey on May 16, 1952, 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, while Chance Browne took over Hi and Lois. Browne lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.