Chris Browne

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Chris Browne (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 Hagar the Horrible, which appears in 1,900 newspapers world wide and is syndicated by King Features Syndicate.

Born in South Orange, New Jersey and growing up in suburban Wilton, Connecticut, he assisted his father on the comic strips Hi and Lois and Hagar the Horrible. He contributed to Hagar from the beginning of the comic in 1972 and co-authored Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook in 1985. When Dik Browne died in 1989, Chris Browne continued to write and draw the comic strip.

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Browne and his wife Carroll live and work in Sarasota, Florida with two Chihuahuas and a Scottish Terrier. They will soon be moving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota [1]. Their daughter is an animal welfare advocate in New York City.

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Hagar 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 recently been optioned for development as a live action motion picture.

Chris 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 the semi-autobiographical comic strip Raising Duncan.