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Hananlouie

Louie, 1948

Harry Hanan was born in West Derby, Lancashire, on 14 December 1916, and was educated at Liverpool School of Art. He started out doing layouts and illustrating articles for the Liverpool Evening Express, eventually writing film reviews and becoming the paper's features editor. In his spare time he designed posters and stage sets. In 1940 he married Marjorie Goode in Liverpool.

He served as an infantry commander during the Second World War. After the war he joined The People, a London-based weekly tabloid, as an editorial cartoonist. He created a comic strip, Louie, for the paper in 1947, which was soon syndicated to the US, and went daily. Hanan and his family moved to American in 1948, settling in Westfield, New Jersey. The strip continued until 1976, when Hanan retired.

Also a painter, his works were exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas. He died on 19 January 1982.

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