Hägar the Horrible: Get Carried Away By America's Favorite Viking!

by Dik Browne

The second installment in the Hagar the Horrible comic strip collections.

Genres: Comics, Humor

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Dik 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.

Reviews

[Knjigoholičarka · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sa Hogarom su stvari vrlo jednostavne - ili ge volite ili ne. A ako ste ga jednom zavoleli - volećete ga zauvek, bez obzira u kom uzrastu ga čitate. (Ja sam ga zavolela kao klinka, isecajući kaiševe Hogara iz Politike i lepeći ih u svoje raskupusane "dnevnike", kako bi mogla da ih čitam ponovo kad god poželim.) Jer, Hogarova "magija" je krajnje jednostavna - to je strip o običnim stvarima, o dinamici jedne porodice, o ocu, majci, deci, o mužu i ženi, o njihovim prijateljima i komšijama. Upravo u tome leži toplina stripova o Hogaru, što nam kroz dogodovštine jedne vikinške porodice* priča priču o svakodnevnim stvarima sa kojima se neminovno susrećemo, i samim tim čini one, ponekad naporne i zamarajuće stvari iz života, smešnijima i podnošljivijima.

Čak je i crtež u stripovima o Hogaru oličenje simplifikacije - prečišćen od suvišnih dodataka, detalja i pojednostavljen da likove i temu gurne u prvi plan. Čemu bespotrebno komplikovanje i drama oko stvari oko kojih ne treba komplikovati i praviti dramu? Čemu pretencioznost i palamuđenje? Hogar ne mlati praznu slamu i uživa u malim životnim zadovoljstvima, a čitanje ovih stripova dobar je podsetnik na to koliko male stvari u životu znače.

* - jedan od autora tekstova u ovoj zbirci stripova Hogarovu porodicu karakteriše kao disfunkcionalnu, sa čim se ja ipak ne bih složila. Porodica Strašni je izuzetno funkcionalna i složna, na svoj uvrnut i jedinstven način.

[Dacko]

Sve tri knjige donosimo iz dečje biblioteke jednom godišnje, taman dok ih malo zaboravimo.

[McKenzie Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

 
A good book of short comic strips. Very funny. I enjoyed reading this collection. I especially liked Helga's character.
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[Bryan Frazier · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a hilarious second edition of the Hagar , The Horrible comic Strip !! As always , Dik Browne's Strip is chock full of good , clean , and wholesome strips !! Browne , ( and Hagar !! ) are in top form here !! Read this !!