Harry W. Haenigsen
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Photograph of The Haenigsens, Bucks County Playhouse, 1941, Sunday Call-Chronicle, 1941, courtesy of the Spruance Collection of the Bucks County Historical Society | | |
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BORN: July 14, 1901, New York, New York
DIED: May 29, 1991, Warminster, Pennsylvania
Harry Haenigsen was a cartoonist and illustrator for more than 60 years. At the height of his career his cartoons and illustrations appeared in 600 newspapers and magazines worldwide. He began as an illustrator and columnist for the New Evening World in 1919, and thereafter his work was seen in Photoplay, Motion Picture, the New York World, and was distributed by the King Feature Syndicate. He covered the Lindbergh kidnapping trial for the New York Herald Tribune. Haenigson created such popular comic strips as Simeon Batts, Penny, Our Bill. Among these, Penny, which was created in 1943 and published internationally, was most popular. Focusing on the life lessons of a thirteen year old girl, it spawned a play and a television production, for which Haenigsen wrote the script. He also authored two Penny books and one based on the Our Bill strip.- Photograph of The Haenigsens, Bucks County Playhouse, 1941, Sunday Call-Chronicle, 1941, courtesy of the Spruance Collection of the Bucks County Historical Society
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