http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/08/07/austin-briggs/ Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:10:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/08/07/austin-briggs/comment-page-1/#comment-681026 Pieter Wiest Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:26:21 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/08/07/austin-briggs/#comment-681026 I should of mentioned in my above email that I like your site. I plan to look at some of the interesting looking stuff over here on the left. Thanks for all the effort -- as well as the undoubted love of illustration. Ever heard of Dagmar Frinta? I'll bet you have. I should of mentioned in my above email that I like your site. I plan to look at some of the interesting looking stuff over here on the left. Thanks for all the effort — as well as the undoubted love of illustration. Ever heard of Dagmar Frinta? I’ll bet you have.

]]> http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/08/07/austin-briggs/comment-page-1/#comment-681023 pieter wiest Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:15:29 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/08/07/austin-briggs/#comment-681023 He was a stunningly good illustrator. I think he is probably my favorite of the era -- though I reserve the right to rescind and re-assign these crushes of mine. I worked as a suit in Detroit throughout the second half of the 20th Century, beginning in 1959. I sold for one of the good, large studios at that time, McNamara Brothers, Inc. I had, until tonight, never realized that Mr Briggs had lived in Detroit. He was a stunningly good illustrator. I think he is probably my favorite of the era — though I reserve the right to rescind and
re-assign these crushes of mine. I worked as a suit in Detroit throughout the second half of the 20th Century, beginning in 1959.
I sold for one of the good, large studios at that time, McNamara
Brothers, Inc. I had, until tonight, never realized that Mr Briggs had lived in Detroit.

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