Harry Haenigsen
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Harry Haenigsen is seen drawing his character Penny Pringle in this photo by Maynard Clark.
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| Born | Harry W. Haenigsen July 14, 1900 |
| Died | 1990 (aged 89) Warminster, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist |
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Notable works
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Penny |
Harry William Haenigsen (July 14, 1900 – 1990) was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for Penny, his comic strip about a teenage girl. He also illustrated for books, magazines and advertising.
Born in New York City, Haenigsen grew up in New Jersey, where he became interested in electricity and cartooning. He began to draw cartoons for a local paper while still in high school. He first studied to become an engineer. In 1917, he took Eugene Zimmerman's correspondence course in illustration. Although he was invited to attend Rutgers University on a scholarship, he followed the advice of the New York Evening World sports cartoonist Thornton Fish and enrolled at the Art Students League in New York, since Fish promised him a job at the New York World when there was an opening. Following employment at the Bray animation studios in 1918, he began illustrating for the World in 1919.
Some of his World illustrations were designs for constructing radio sets, and in 1922, he drew for the World his first comic strip, Simeon Batts, about radios and radio listeners. When the World folded in 1931, he moved to the New York American. He expanded into illustrating for magazines, including Collier's.
Haenigsen was employed briefly at the Fleischer animation studios, and then drew Our Bill for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate beginning March 6, 1939. He continued that daily strip until 1966.
In 1931, Haenigsen first moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobby, but they stayed there only briefly. Using the stage name Jeanette E. Kerr, Bobby Haenigsen was a singer and dancer who worked with George M. Cohan and as a soloist with John Philip Sousa. The couple returned to the Solebury-New Hope area in 1939 and lived in Lambertville, New Jersey.
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