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. 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." 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." With the popularity of the strip, Ed profited from merchandising of games, figurines and other products. 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. ==Changing times==