Hasen, Irwin, 1918-

Irwin Hanan Hasen was born July 8, 1918 in New York City. He studied art at the National Academy and the Art Students League. During the thirties he free-lanced in advertising and movie public relations and worked as a sports cartoonist. He went on to do art work for several comic books: The Green Hornet (1940), The Fox (1940-42), The Green Lantern (1941), The Flash (1943) and Citizen Smith, Son of the Unknown Soldier (1941). After World War II, when he worked on the Fort Dix Center newspapers, he began work for National Periodicals where he worked on such comic book projects as Johnny Thunder, The Justice League of America, The Flash and The Green Lantern. For a few months, he did a brief strip for the New York Post entitled The Goldbergs. In 1955, in collaboration with Gus Edson, a fellow National Cartoonist Society artist, he began the comic strip Dondi, a strip about a small boy who immigrates to the U.S. The strip was drawn by Hasen and written by Edson. Gus Edson died in 1966 and Hasen continued the Dondi strip until 1986. In 1961 and 1962 Dondi received the National Cartoonists Society Best Story Strip Award.

From the description of Collection, [195-?]-1985. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 17946119

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