Carl Ed

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

After publisher Patterson renamed it Harold Teen, it debuted in the New York Daily News during February 1919.

"[4][5] Carl Ed's strip was widely read in the 1920s, and his readers became familiar with such slang as "shebas", "sheiks" and "pantywaist".

He added Josie as a topper strip beneath Harold Teen and also found time to work as an instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

(He retired in the last week of September 1959, and Harold Teen continued until his final strips ran out on November 18, 1959.)

Carl Ed's signature is at bottom right on this Milton Bradley board game from the 1920s.
Carl Ed drew this comics chronology of his strips from 1912 to 1919: Big Ben , Luke McGlook, the Bush League Bearcat (aka Luke McGluke ), The Tener Alley Gang and Harold Teen . The center panel shows Robert S. Gable, the manager of World Color Syndicate.