10 Facts About Harry Haenigsen

Harry William Haenigsen was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for Penny, his comic strip about a teenage girl.

Harry Haenigsen began to draw cartoons for a local paper while still in high school.

Harry 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.

In 1931, Harry Haenigsen first moved to Lumberville, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobby, but they stayed there only briefly.

Harry Haenigsen launched Penny on June 20,1943, working with writer Howard Boughner.

In 1956, Harry Haenigsen was a contributor to the Famous Artists Cartoon Course.

Harry Haenigsen was the director of the Bucks County Playhouse and the Playhouse Inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania.

In 1970, when Hoest left to start his own strip, My Son John, for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, Harry Haenigsen chose to end Penny and retired.

Harry Haenigsen contributed a recipe to The Cartoonist Cookbook.

Harry Haenigsen died on May 29,1991 at the Warminster General Hospital in Warminster, Pennsylvania.