Harry Hanan (14 December 1916 - 19 January 1982)[1] was a British cartoonist, best known as the creator of the pantomime comic strip Louie which he began in 1947.

Meeting his weekly deadline in short order, Hanan created Louie in his spare time, and it was first published in The People in March 1947.

[3] With the success of the strip, Hanan and his family left London in November 1948 and moved to the United States, where they settled in Westfield, New Jersey.

[2] Louie was included in the Renaissance Society's "Comic Strip as Art" exhibit at the University of Chicago 22 January to 22 February 1968.

This consists of 128 original daily Louie strips (1953–64) (traces of graphite, Zipatone, pen and ink on illustration board, approximately 4¾ x 17½ inches), a dozen newspaper and magazine clippings about Hanan and his work (including family pictures) (1947–50), reader correspondence (1947–63), an undated photograph of Hanan and one family picture (1948), plus 27 Louie proof sheets (1964–66) (six daily strips per newsprint sheet, 9 x 16½ inches).