page_title: Harold Teen
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Teen
caption_attribution_description: English: Comic strips Harold Teen and Josie. A renewal search was done in both artwork and contributions to publications for the years 1953 and 1964. There were no listings for Carl Ed, Chicago Tribune or NY Times in any variation in these categories. There's no evidence that copyright continues to be claimed on either.
context_page_description: Harold Teen was a popular, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed. Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen. The strip ran from 1919 to 1959. Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence. I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one."
context_section_description: Harold Teen was a popular, long-running American comic strip written and drawn by Carl Ed (pronounced "eed"). Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson may have suggested and certainly approved the strip's concept, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen. The strip ran from 1919 to 1959. Asked in the late 1930s why he had started the strip, Ed answered, "Twenty years ago, there was no comic strip on adolescence. I thought every well-balanced comic sheet should have one."
caption: Cartoonists often had to fill an entire page. Here is Carl Ed's page as it looked in the 1930s with Harold Teen at top and his Josie at bottom (January 12, 1936).
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