Clare Briggs

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Briggs drawn comic strip from 1908

Clare Briggs (born August 5, 1875 in Reedsburg , Wisconsin , † January 3, 1930 in New York ) was an American cartoonist and comic artist. With the comic A. Piker Clerk he created the first daily strip .

life and work

Briggs, who moved to Illinois and Nebraska with his family , published his first drawing in The Western Penman in the 1890s . In 1896 he became a draftsman for the St. Louis Democrat , and two years later he moved to the St. Louis Chronicle . Briggs moved to New York around 1900, where he studied at the Pratt Institute and worked for the New York Journal and New York World . William Randolph Hearst hired him as a draftsman for his Chicago newspapers. There he created the first daily comic with A. Piker Clerk . A. Piker Clerk lasted a year and a half and was later successfully plagiarized by Bud Fisher with Mutt and Jeff . In 1914 Briggs moved back to New York and created a number of other series there. Briggs struggled with health problems in the last few years of his life before he died in January 1930 at the age of 54. During his creative period Briggs created numerous series such as When a Feller Needs a Friend , Movie of a Man , Someone's Always Taking the Joy Out of Life , There's at Least One in Every Office , Real Folks at Home , Mr. and Mrs. and Danny Dreamer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Clare Briggs on lfb.it (Italian) , accessed January 1, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Clare Briggs on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on August 18, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Briggs, Clare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Reedsburg , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1930
Place of death new York