Austin Briggs (September 8, 1908 – October 10, 1973)[1] was a cartoonist and illustrator.

Born in Humboldt, Minnesota he grew up in Detroit, Michigan before moving to New York City as a teenager.

After working for a while at an advertising agency, he began providing illustrations for the "upmarket" pulp magazine Blue Book.

[2] Briggs later became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan.

[2] In 1940, he drew a Flash Gordon daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944; he moved on to creating illustrations for books and magazines such as Reader's Digest and The Saturday Evening Post.