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Hagar: o horrível - Volume: 1
Hagar The Horrible #1 [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1974] Dik Browne
- GenresHumor
86 pages, Pocket
First published October 9, 1974
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About the author
Dik Browne
425 books22 followersDik Browne was born Richard Arthur Allan Browne in New York City. He was a popular cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hägar the Horrible and for drawing Hi and Lois.
In the 1940s he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for an advertising company, where he created the trademark logo for Chiquita.
In 1954 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 Browne illustrated until his death. The series is now drawn by his son Chance and written by Walker's sons. In 1973 Browne created Hägar the Horrible about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking. The comic is now produced by his son Chris. Both strips have been very successful, appearing in hundreds of newspapers each for decades.
He was recognized for his work by the National Cartoonist Society with their Humor Comics Strip Award in 1959, 1960, 1972, and 1977 for Hi and Lois, and again in 1984 and 1986 for Hägar the Horrible. He also received their Reuben Award for Hi and Lois in 1962, for Hägar the Horrible in 1973, and their Elzie Segar Award in 1973. He died in Sarasota, Florida.
In the 1940s he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for an advertising company, where he created the trademark logo for Chiquita.
In 1954 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 Browne illustrated until his death. The series is now drawn by his son Chance and written by Walker's sons. In 1973 Browne created Hägar the Horrible about an ill-mannered red-bearded medieval viking. The comic is now produced by his son Chris. Both strips have been very successful, appearing in hundreds of newspapers each for decades.
He was recognized for his work by the National Cartoonist Society with their Humor Comics Strip Award in 1959, 1960, 1972, and 1977 for Hi and Lois, and again in 1984 and 1986 for Hägar the Horrible. He also received their Reuben Award for Hi and Lois in 1962, for Hägar the Horrible in 1973, and their Elzie Segar Award in 1973. He died in Sarasota, Florida.
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May 22, 2021
Hagar the Horrible is just hilarious. It's right up there among my favourite funny cartoons such as Calvin & Hobbes, Garfield, Heathcliff and Peanuts.
(To be honest I don't even remember where or how I got this German pocket book, but it did improve my life significantly when I was 14.)
(To be honest I don't even remember where or how I got this German pocket book, but it did improve my life significantly when I was 14.)
July 31, 2020
The first book in the Hagar the Horrible series.
I will admit it - have a secret love for Vikings. My high school mascot was one. And, for a brief bit of time, I considered trying out to be the guy in the Viking costume. (Brief being about 5 minutes. Then I realized a) I dont like 90% my peers, b) I wasnt popular, and c) I had better things to do then run around a football and other sports fields.
But that didnt stop me from liking Vikings. (Aside from the pillaging, plundering, raping, and killing).
They were a noble society, with elaborate laws and rituals.
So, reading these strips always amuse me. A wife who stays at home and cooks. (Not really true to form). A son who wants to read and make peace. (Yeah, that didnt work so well). A daughter looking to be both a shield maiden and a wife to a musician (Ok, that is pretty close to form - women were as much a warrior as men. And what else are you going to do when you are getting drunk on mead in a viking long building than sing songs of past conquests!). And of course, Hagar, the main Viking. A man who, in many ways, was a typical 1950's dad troupe.
I will admit it - have a secret love for Vikings. My high school mascot was one. And, for a brief bit of time, I considered trying out to be the guy in the Viking costume. (Brief being about 5 minutes. Then I realized a) I dont like 90% my peers, b) I wasnt popular, and c) I had better things to do then run around a football and other sports fields.
But that didnt stop me from liking Vikings. (Aside from the pillaging, plundering, raping, and killing).
They were a noble society, with elaborate laws and rituals.
So, reading these strips always amuse me. A wife who stays at home and cooks. (Not really true to form). A son who wants to read and make peace. (Yeah, that didnt work so well). A daughter looking to be both a shield maiden and a wife to a musician (Ok, that is pretty close to form - women were as much a warrior as men. And what else are you going to do when you are getting drunk on mead in a viking long building than sing songs of past conquests!). And of course, Hagar, the main Viking. A man who, in many ways, was a typical 1950's dad troupe.
June 18, 2012
Funny as always
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