Artist Diana Hansen-Young held elective office in Hawaii, and was
Hawaii’s leading artist throughout the 80’s and 90’s, moving to New
York in 1997. She wrote the book and lyrics for Mimi Le Duck, an
off-Broadway musical in 2006 starring EARTHA KITT.
In Hawaii, she wrote and illustrated 10 books in the Mango Hill
children’s series, a self-help book for women (Why Not?), and three
art and poetry coffee-table books. She published the first art
posters and calendars in Hawaii, and sold over 250,000 calendars
with her images. Her line included mugs (500,000 to Kraft Foods,
Jack-In-The-Box, Liberty House, etc), jewelry, women and children’s
clothing as well as hundreds of posters, prints and greeting cards.
She wrote and produced three animated children’s cartoon programs
based on the Mango Hill series that ran on NBC and sold 5,000 VHS
videos of the programs. In the same year, she wrote and produced a
one-hour animated movie Honolulu Nights (a noir detective story set
in Honolulu in 1930) that also aired on NBC, sponsored by JC
Penney.
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