Chris Browne, cartoonist for “Hagar the Horrible” and creator of “Raising Duncan“, has called Sarasota Florida his home for the last 25 years but is moving because of the over development in the city.
Sarasota used to be quaint, Browne said. It had character. He could cruise over the bridge to Longboat Key, and the only thing he’d see was “The Purple Cow” — otherwise known as the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
“Now,” he said, “it’s dwarfed by this skyline that looks like Atlanta or Tampa.”
It breaks his heart.
Chris and his wife will be moving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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CHRIS, SO SORRY YOU ARE LEAVING THE WEST COAST OF FLA. SDON’T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT MY GRANDSON LENNY 3RD DID SOME WORK FOR YOU SOME TIME AGO AND YOU REWARDED HIM WITH A DRAWING OF HAGAR ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD AND YOU THANKED HIM FOR HIS WORK AND SIGNED IT. WELL, I’M LENNY ALSO AND HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVE HAGAR AND SO HE GAVE IT TO ME. I HAVE IT FRAMED AND WILL TREASURE IT OR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I’M 75 AND WHEN I GO, LENNY GETS IT BACK. IT’S IN MY WILL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR LAUGHS. THE ONLY CARTOONS I READ ARE HAGAR, SHOE AND PICKLES. ALL OF THEM ARE PURE FUN AND SOMETIMES SO REALISTIC.GOOD LUCK IN SIOUX CITY AND KEEP MAKING ME LAUGH. BEST REGARDS, LENNY SR.
CHRIS, SO SORRY YOU ARE LEAVING THE WEST COAST OF FLA. SDON’T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT MY GRANDSON LENNY 3RD DID SOME WORK FOR YOU SOME TIME AGO AND YOU REWARDED HIM WITH A DRAWING OF HAGAR ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD AND YOU THANKED HIM FOR HIS WORK AND SIGNED IT. WELL, I’M LENNY ALSO AND HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVE HAGAR AND SO HE GAVE IT TO ME. I HAVE IT FRAMED AND WILL TREASURE IT OR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I’M 75 AND WHEN I GO, LENNY GETS IT BACK. IT’S IN MY WILL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR LAUGHS. THE ONLY CARTOONS I READ ARE HAGAR, SHOE AND PICKLES. ALL OF THEM ARE PURE FUN AND SOMETIMES SO REALISTIC.GOOD LUCK IN SIOUX CITY AND KEEP MAKING ME LAUGH. BEST REGARDS, LENNY SR.
CHRIS, SO SORRY YOU ARE LEAVING THE WEST COAST OF FLA. SDON’T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER, BUT MY GRANDSON LENNY 3RD DID SOME WORK FOR YOU SOME TIME AGO AND YOU REWARDED HIM WITH A DRAWING OF HAGAR ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD AND YOU THANKED HIM FOR HIS WORK AND SIGNED IT. WELL, I’M LENNY ALSO AND HE KNEW HOW MUCH I LOVE HAGAR AND SO HE GAVE IT TO ME. I HAVE IT FRAMED AND WILL TREASURE IT OR THE REST OF MY LIFE. I’M 75 AND WHEN I GO, LENNY GETS IT BACK. IT’S IN MY WILL. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR LAUGHS. THE ONLY CARTOONS I READ ARE HAGAR, SHOE AND PICKLES. ALL OF THEM ARE PURE FUN AND SOMETIMES SO REALISTIC.GOOD LUCK IN SIOUX CITY AND KEEP MAKING ME LAUGH. BEST REGARDS, LENNY SR.
Chris,
I especially like your references to parrots. Hagar’s parrot it too smart for it to be a coincidence. Did you ever read the SPT article about my bird Arielle (May 2004)?
Check out her web pages for more info about a bird that voluntarily demonstrates her knowledge of English. Listen to the many samples on the page about my book “Another_Mind.”
Good luck on your new home. I agree with you that this area has been ruined by builders and a government with absolutely no backbone or ability to plan.
Sincerely,
Mike Dalton
Clearwater, FL
Chris,
I especially like your references to parrots. Hagar’s parrot it too smart for it to be a coincidence. Did you ever read the SPT article about my bird Arielle (May 2004)?
Check out her web pages for more info about a bird that voluntarily demonstrates her knowledge of English. Listen to the many samples on the page about my book “Another_Mind.”
Good luck on your new home. I agree with you that this area has been ruined by builders and a government with absolutely no backbone or ability to plan.
Sincerely,
Mike Dalton
Clearwater, FL
Chris,
I especially like your references to parrots. Hagar’s parrot it too smart for it to be a coincidence. Did you ever read the SPT article about my bird Arielle (May 2004)?
Check out her web pages for more info about a bird that voluntarily demonstrates her knowledge of English. Listen to the many samples on the page about my book “Another_Mind.”
Good luck on your new home. I agree with you that this area has been ruined by builders and a government with absolutely no backbone or ability to plan.
Sincerely,
Mike Dalton
Clearwater, FL
Chris… Enjoy reading Hagar daily, but find
the repetitious “surrounded by hoards” idea, which no human would be able to escape, not just tiresome but frustrating. I know its just a comic strip, and the dialogue between Hagar & Lucky Larry is amusing under such circumstances, but it ceases to be amusing after the hundredth time. In most situations it would be just as amusing if it were used in a scenario where our heroes had at least the smallest of chances to escape …guaranteeing a return the next day and lending at least a smidgin of believeability.
Chris… Enjoy reading Hagar daily, but find
the repetitious “surrounded by hoards” idea, which no human would be able to escape, not just tiresome but frustrating. I know its just a comic strip, and the dialogue between Hagar & Lucky Larry is amusing under such circumstances, but it ceases to be amusing after the hundredth time. In most situations it would be just as amusing if it were used in a scenario where our heroes had at least the smallest of chances to escape …guaranteeing a return the next day and lending at least a smidgin of believeability.
Chris,
Yours is the only comic that I read in our newspaper. I find it to be the best by far. I have always enjoyed a good laugh and you have provided that for me and I’m sure many others.
This morning I read your comic where Hagar and his troops all fell off the latter when they all sneezed at the same time. I must tell you that I couldn’t finish my coffee from laughing. What a talent you have for making people laugh.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
John Thorson
Chris,
Yours is the only comic that I read in our newspaper. I find it to be the best by far. I have always enjoyed a good laugh and you have provided that for me and I’m sure many others.
This morning I read your comic where Hagar and his troops all fell off the latter when they all sneezed at the same time. I must tell you that I couldn’t finish my coffee from laughing. What a talent you have for making people laugh.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
John Thorson
Chris,
Yours is the only comic that I read in our newspaper. I find it to be the best by far. I have always enjoyed a good laugh and you have provided that for me and I’m sure many others.
This morning I read your comic where Hagar and his troops all fell off the latter when they all sneezed at the same time. I must tell you that I couldn’t finish my coffee from laughing. What a talent you have for making people laugh.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
John Thorson
Chris, I really hate you’ve left the area. Do you have some young protege’s still here in Sarasota. I have written a book, “Deep Woods University… Great Stuff I Learned in the Outdoors and I need cartoon illustrations done for 36 chapters. These are funny hunting, fishing, sports-with-my-sons stories that are a launchpad for helping men to understand themselves and their struggles. The stories are designed to make them laugh and hmmmm as they read things they identify with. I’ve written it with the unchurched sports guy in mind. The pictures will be strange mind-stimulators like big-eyed turkeys discovering a sleeping hunter as they peer over a stump where he’s snoring. (941) 374-3943 – Bro Rick
Chris, I really hate you’ve left the area. Do you have some young protege’s still here in Sarasota. I have written a book, “Deep Woods University… Great Stuff I Learned in the Outdoors and I need cartoon illustrations done for 36 chapters. These are funny hunting, fishing, sports-with-my-sons stories that are a launchpad for helping men to understand themselves and their struggles. The stories are designed to make them laugh and hmmmm as they read things they identify with. I’ve written it with the unchurched sports guy in mind. The pictures will be strange mind-stimulators like big-eyed turkeys discovering a sleeping hunter as they peer over a stump where he’s snoring. (941) 374-3943 – Bro Rick
Chris, I really hate you’ve left the area. Do you have some young protege’s still here in Sarasota. I have written a book, “Deep Woods University… Great Stuff I Learned in the Outdoors and I need cartoon illustrations done for 36 chapters. These are funny hunting, fishing, sports-with-my-sons stories that are a launchpad for helping men to understand themselves and their struggles. The stories are designed to make them laugh and hmmmm as they read things they identify with. I’ve written it with the unchurched sports guy in mind. The pictures will be strange mind-stimulators like big-eyed turkeys discovering a sleeping hunter as they peer over a stump where he’s snoring. (941) 374-3943 – Bro Rick
I am trying to reach Chris Browne. I live in the house his father designed and built in Sarasota and I have some questions I’d like to ask him. Does anyone know how to reach him or his agent?
I am trying to reach Chris Browne. I live in the house his father designed and built in Sarasota and I have some questions I’d like to ask him. Does anyone know how to reach him or his agent?