Hazel is a single-panel cartoon series by Ted Key about a live-in maid who works for a middle-class family.

He drew it the next morning and sent to The Saturday Evening Post, where it quickly became a popular series.

[6] In 2008, the cartoonist's son, Peter Key, talked about the origin of the character, "Like a lot of creative people, he kept a notepad near his bedside.

Kirkus Reviews commented: Key adapted his cartoon series into the television show Hazel, starring Shirley Booth, who won two Emmy Awards portraying the titular maid.

Key won the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1977 for Hazel.