Rare Original Clare Briggs Comic Drawing | The Greatest Moment In History Showing 'em What He Bought For Friend Wife | An early example of Briggs works. A large and detailed example. It is difficult to find examples this early and detailed. Medium: Pen & Ink Date: 1913 Signed: Signed by the artist at bottom of image "Briggs/13" Size: Sight: 10" W x 11.75" H; Frame: 14" W x 15.5" H Frame: Black frame original to the piece Provenance: Collection of Jerri Dodd Literature: The Drawings of Clare Briggs, Memorial Clare Briggs William Wise (1930) Clare A. Briggs (August 5, 1875 – January 3, 1930) was an early American comic strip artist who rose to fame in 1904 with his strip A. Piker Clerk. Briggs was best known for his later comic strips When a Feller Needs a Friend, Ain't It a Grand and Glorious Feeling?, The Days of Real Sport, and Mr. and Mrs.