caption death_date birth_place subcat nationality art cartoonist birth_date image article_title
carl ed and his characters in 1933 10 october 1959 moline , illinois american american y y 16 july 1890 carled33.jpg carl ed

carl ed

carl frank ludwig ed -lrb- july 16 , 1890 -- october 10 , 1959 -rrb- was a comic strip artist best known as the creator of `` harold teen '' .
his name is pronounced eed .
born in moline , illinois , ed graduated from augustana college in rock island , illinois .
he was 22 years old when he worked on the baseball strip `` big ben '' in 1912 .
returning to rock island , he signed on as a reporter with the `` rock island argus '' , where he was soon promoted to sports editor and then became the newspaper 's city editor , while also drawing another baseball strip , `` luke mcglook , the bush league bearcat '' -lrb- aka `` luke mcgluke '' -rrb- , distributed by the world color syndicate .
he moved on to chicago as a sports cartoonist on the `` chicago american '' where he also drew the strip `` the tener alley gang '' .
