Richard Arthur Allan Browne (August 11, 1917 – June 4, 1989) was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hägar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.

[2] He attended Cooper Union for a year,[2] then started work at the New York Journal-American as a copy boy.

[3][4] Browne slipped in undetected, and his courtroom sketches gave the New York Journal-American a news exclusive on the story.

[2] His work for this strip, and for the Mounds candy bar ad, brought him to the attention of King Features Syndicate.

[2] In 1954, cartoonist Mort Walker, seeing the Mounds candy bar ad,[10] enlisted Browne[10] to co-create 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.