Monday, September 15, 2008 12:36:30 AM
Posted By Art Baxter
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![]() I will now discuss a PENNY strip by Harry Haenigsen from 1959. Click here to view the entire strip. Penny is a teenager and she is usually involve in the frivolity associated with light-hearted kinds of teen stories, as opposed to the horror it actually is. PENNY is a strip that is all but forgotten today. It is a beautifully drawn strip despite it being lighter than air. In many ways it resembles Chester Gould's DICK TRACY in its level of cartoon abstraction abet more refined. The strip had a healthy run from 1943 through 1970 when Haenigsen retired it after he was seriously injured in a car accident. It is interesting to note that Haengsen often went to teen hang-outs to eavesdrop on conversations to get ideas for his strip. There was one collection of the PENNY strip, published by Simon & Schuster in 1953. It's features a sampeling of dalies and Sunday's from the strip's early years. PENNY is © New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
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