Background
Hasen, Irwin Hanan was born on July 8, 1918 in New York City. Son of Jack and Serena (Weinberg) Hasen.
Hasen, Irwin Hanan was born on July 8, 1918 in New York City. Son of Jack and Serena (Weinberg) Hasen.
Student, National Academy of Design, 1940. Student, Art Student League, New York City, 1940.
His family later moved from Brooklyn to 110th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan. In 1939, he began his art training on the block where he lived, as he recalled: Across the street was the National Academy of Design, a huge structure like a garage, an airplane hangar. One of the oldest art schools in America, one of the most prestigious.
Classical art
I was always drawing. I was drawing.. on the empty pages of books I was there for three years, every night during the week, drawing in charcoal all the statues of Michelangelo and all the Bernini and all the classics.
During the day, I would hawk, sell, drawings of prizefighters down in New New York
That was my first job—boxing cartoonist. I made a very small, very slight living.
I was 19-20 years old. I sold my cartoons to the Madison Square Garden Corporation.
They were printed all over New York in different newspapers.
lieutenant was like public relations for the fights. Comic strips Before the creation of Dondi in 1954, Hasen drew a comic strip adaptation of The Goldbergs radio/television series which ran in the New York Post in 1944 and 1945. Instruction From September, 1976 until May, 2007 Irwin was an instructor at the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.
He also taught cartooning classes at The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Hasen suffered a minor stroke on April 24, 2007. Hasen died March 13, 2015 at the age of 96.
Hasen, an active member of the National Cartoonists Society, met Gus Edson while on a tour of of Korea and together they created the Dondi comic strip, with Edson writing and Hasen drawing.