Clare A. Briggs

(1875-1930) lived in Lincoln. Graphic humorist, one of nation's highest paid cartoonists in the early 1920s, noted for creating first comic strip in a daily newspaper in 1904, remembered for "Mr. and Mrs." and other comic strips. Consult Omaha World Herald, January 4, 1930, p. 1 and Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present (Promised Land Productions, 1990) 51, 268 and American National Biography, Vol 3 (1999) 536-537.

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