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Austin Briggs, born 8 September 1908, was an American cartoonist and illustrator.

Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager. After working for a while at an advertising agency, he began providing illustrations for the pulp magazine Blue Book. Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan.

In 1940, he was commissioned to draw a Flash Gordon daily strip which he continued to illustrate until 1944. He also received commissions for illustrations for books alongside magazines such as Reader's Digest and The Saturday Evening Post.

He was also one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School, founded by members of the New York Society of Illustrators, principally Albert Dorne and Norman Rockwell. In 1969, he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Briggs retired to Paris. He died from leukaemia in Paris, aged 65.

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