Hasen, 96, who drew “Dondi” for its three-decade run as a newspaper comic, died Friday at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York. The cause was heart failure, said his attorney, Fredric Horowitz.

Yet Dondi attained a measure of immortality as a master of ephemeral art. His reputation has only grown, said the artist Sandra Fabara, who starred in the hip-hop cult classic “ Wild Style ...

Dondi White, "Runner," 1983. Available now in Contemporary Select on Artnet Auctions. Est. $200,000-300,000.

NEW YORK — Irwin Hasen, the cartoonist and comic book artist who drew and helped create “Dondi,” the widely syndicated comic strip about a lovable, wide-eyed World War II orphan, died Friday ...