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"Harold Teen" (02/25/32) by Carl Ed

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Title:	"Harold Teen" (02/25/32) by Carl Ed
Artist:	Carl Ed (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	826
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Added to Site:	3/27/2016
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From the Ralph Bakshi Collection.

large size: 7 x 21". The title: POP OPINES FEMS ARE TRICKY.

I particularly like strips that are clearly off their time, with fairly unselfconscious displays of ethnic, racial, and/or sexual bias.

Carl Frank Ludwig Ed (July 16, 1890 – October 10, 1959) was a comic strip artist best known as the creator of Harold Teen.

He drew samples for a strip titled Seventeen, loosely based on Booth Tarkington's successful novel Seventeen. After publisher Patterson renamed it Harold Teen, it debuted in the New York Daily News during February 1919. Carl Ed's strip was widely read in the 1920s, and his readers became familiar with such slang as "shebas", "sheiks" and "pantywaist". Some of these were words and phrases created by Ed, such as, "Fan mah brow." 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." The strip was so successful in depicting the Jazz Age that it became a minor cultural icon of its time. The principal characters were Covina High School student Harold Teen, his girlfriend Lillums Lovewell, his diminutive sidekick Shadow Smart and Pop Jenks, proprietor of the Sugar Bowl soda shop where Harold consumed Gedunk sundaes. The Sugar Bowl (aka Ye Sugar Bowl) also sold "Sodas and how" and advertised "the biggest soda in town." With the popularity of the strip, Ed profited from merchandising of games, figurines and other products. He added Josie as a topperstrip beneath Harold Teen and also found time to work as an instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

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