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Hagar the Horrible Gets it All
Hagar the Horrible Gets it All (Hagar Pocket Books) Browne, Dik
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 1986
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Dik Browne
428 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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January 2, 2026
I fell in love with the ‘Hagar the Horrible’ Series when I was in the 2nd grade at school and when my Mumbai, India still had ‘seasons’, ‘normal weather’, and a clean enough atmosphere to live and breathe in! This would be the 1990s and I was quite addicted to Hagar the Horrible and his world by Dik Browne who became one of my best cartoon illustrators after Goscinny and Uderzo of the Asterix the Gaul fame and Herge of the Tintin fame. Alas, it was the 1990s and my local lending library could manage only a few mass market paperback copies of Hagar the Horrible, and just two, if I remember correctly, in a hardback form.
Eventually, as it normally happens in Mumbai, all the Hagar the Horrible comics got stolen or ‘pinched’ from my local lending library and 7-year-old me was left ‘Hagarless’, heartbroken, haggard, hopeless, but still in healthy humid weather meant for humans!
Now I live in a Mumbai and India where on the 31st of December 2025 at the height of a tropical Winter, it rains a cold acid rain that annoys my 15-year-old cat Lopez to such an extent that she vomited all her dinner in protest! The eagles have been so sorely angered by the rain that they have finally realized that we humans have had a hand in this-their perpetual bird-like misery-and so in protest they are attacking us with their eagle droppings which we never knew ever existed. The crows are being stoic as usual but are still protesting by flying low and pecking at our heads or dropping dry fish or dead mice on our heads while the dogs have gone ‘barking mad’ and are ‘hounding us’ wherever we go and then biting us and eventually giving us rabies!
It is at such a time that I happened upon ‘Hagar Gets It All’, an old 1989 mass market paperback copy of a comic series that I will love till the day I die. I read it in one night on the 1st of January 2026 and though global warming has given me the blues since the pandemic, dear old Hagar still did not fail to brighten up my spirits and to give me hope that probably nothing worse can happen, after all this is still India, not the USA! And we are thankfully not Greenland either, so God be praised. No one in any case will want to annexe us that easily, our weather is such that for six months in a year it is hot and then for the rest of the remaining months, it is hotter! And then it rains an acid storm on New Years Day 2026 making sure that no New Year party celebration takes place without some good old 1970s ‘acid’ as a refreshment!
For those new to Hagar the Horrible, it is next to impossible to procure any of the Hagar titles in India for now and after whatever has taken place overseas, it has become next to impossible to even hope that you will be able to enjoy the comedy and rich humour of the indomitable Viking Hagar in this lifetime, especially if you are a Silent, Boomer, Gen-X or Millennial like me. Yet, there is a lovely hardback collection on Amazon that can get you the first gorgeous 50 years of Hagar’s exploits, and it is at an affordable price, so do check it out. This mass-market paperback copy of mine was rip-roaring funny, created a lot of nostalgia for me and made me regress to the point that I was sucking my thumb in my sleep!
When I was reading the book, I recalled in a tactile manner the many frigid but non-snowy Mumbai cold winters of the 1990s in which I used to either be playing basketball with my building friends, decorating my house and the whole neighbourhood, trying to trick the older teenage girls and boys of my vicinity to get under a mistletoe (plastic) so that I and my other underage friends could get them to steal a kiss, we used to do ‘pretend’ Christmas Winter tasks like ‘playacting’, that we were making a snowman, snow angels, and that we were shovelling the snow from our doorstep every morning, etc.
I am very unwell these days and most of the time confined to the bed and am extremely weak. The comic brought a lot of light into my otherwise very sickly and very overworked New Year 2026. If you are a Western Reader, please do get your copy or copies of the Hagar the Horrible series and you will certainly not regret it, and - lucky you, you can get the whole damn series and each and every copy you can ever want and I want to claw you for that! Hagar is funny, the best of what the 20th century was for most of us and nostalgia at its very best.
5 stars obviously from a very ill and sick me!
Eventually, as it normally happens in Mumbai, all the Hagar the Horrible comics got stolen or ‘pinched’ from my local lending library and 7-year-old me was left ‘Hagarless’, heartbroken, haggard, hopeless, but still in healthy humid weather meant for humans!
Now I live in a Mumbai and India where on the 31st of December 2025 at the height of a tropical Winter, it rains a cold acid rain that annoys my 15-year-old cat Lopez to such an extent that she vomited all her dinner in protest! The eagles have been so sorely angered by the rain that they have finally realized that we humans have had a hand in this-their perpetual bird-like misery-and so in protest they are attacking us with their eagle droppings which we never knew ever existed. The crows are being stoic as usual but are still protesting by flying low and pecking at our heads or dropping dry fish or dead mice on our heads while the dogs have gone ‘barking mad’ and are ‘hounding us’ wherever we go and then biting us and eventually giving us rabies!
It is at such a time that I happened upon ‘Hagar Gets It All’, an old 1989 mass market paperback copy of a comic series that I will love till the day I die. I read it in one night on the 1st of January 2026 and though global warming has given me the blues since the pandemic, dear old Hagar still did not fail to brighten up my spirits and to give me hope that probably nothing worse can happen, after all this is still India, not the USA! And we are thankfully not Greenland either, so God be praised. No one in any case will want to annexe us that easily, our weather is such that for six months in a year it is hot and then for the rest of the remaining months, it is hotter! And then it rains an acid storm on New Years Day 2026 making sure that no New Year party celebration takes place without some good old 1970s ‘acid’ as a refreshment!
For those new to Hagar the Horrible, it is next to impossible to procure any of the Hagar titles in India for now and after whatever has taken place overseas, it has become next to impossible to even hope that you will be able to enjoy the comedy and rich humour of the indomitable Viking Hagar in this lifetime, especially if you are a Silent, Boomer, Gen-X or Millennial like me. Yet, there is a lovely hardback collection on Amazon that can get you the first gorgeous 50 years of Hagar’s exploits, and it is at an affordable price, so do check it out. This mass-market paperback copy of mine was rip-roaring funny, created a lot of nostalgia for me and made me regress to the point that I was sucking my thumb in my sleep!
When I was reading the book, I recalled in a tactile manner the many frigid but non-snowy Mumbai cold winters of the 1990s in which I used to either be playing basketball with my building friends, decorating my house and the whole neighbourhood, trying to trick the older teenage girls and boys of my vicinity to get under a mistletoe (plastic) so that I and my other underage friends could get them to steal a kiss, we used to do ‘pretend’ Christmas Winter tasks like ‘playacting’, that we were making a snowman, snow angels, and that we were shovelling the snow from our doorstep every morning, etc.
I am very unwell these days and most of the time confined to the bed and am extremely weak. The comic brought a lot of light into my otherwise very sickly and very overworked New Year 2026. If you are a Western Reader, please do get your copy or copies of the Hagar the Horrible series and you will certainly not regret it, and - lucky you, you can get the whole damn series and each and every copy you can ever want and I want to claw you for that! Hagar is funny, the best of what the 20th century was for most of us and nostalgia at its very best.
5 stars obviously from a very ill and sick me!
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