Title: Autograph Letter Signed to Saturday Evening Post Art Director Ken Stuart
Description: New York: April 23, 1962. 1962. New York: April 23, 1962. 1962. Very good. - 70 words penned in blue ink on 2 sides of a cream sheet of the Tuscany hotel letterhead, 6-3/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide, with the address printed in blue at the top. Signed "Cordially / Austin". There is a paper- clip mark to the top left corner of the letterhead & to the verso. Folded once for maling. Very good.
Briggs writes to Ken Stuart, art director of the Saturday Evening Post, to ask him to give copies of manuscripts he is sending to Briggs to a Tom Holloway. "Pushing off tomorrow for the flight to Paris. It was good to see you at the A.D. pre-view, and I look forward to doing that story for the new, new Post.."
American cartoonist and illustrator Austin Briggs, after working for a time at a New York City advertising agency, became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. From 1940 to around 1944 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip, then went on to create illustrations for books and for magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Readers Digest. He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1969. Very good .
Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; CARTOONS; AMERICAN CARTOONIST; AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR; FLASH GORDON; AUSTIN BRIGGS; AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED; ALS; A.L.S.; SIGNATURE; KEN STUART, ART DIRECTOR, SATURDAY EVENING POST.
- Book number: 31528
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