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Ted Key

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Ted (Theodore Keyser) Key (1912 - 2008) was active/lived in New York, Pennsylvania, California.  Ted Key is known for Syndicated cartoons.

Ted Key was a prolific drawing master of cartoons and an "inventor of anthropomorphic animal characters" including the pet duck that laid golden eggs and was 'star' of the Walt Disney movie, The Million Dollar Duck (1971); a field-goal kicking mule in the Disney movie, Gus (1976) and a dog, who was a traveling professor who starred in a cartoon show, Rocky and Friends (1959).

Likely the cartoon character for which he remains best known is Hazel, "a name synonymous with live-in housekeepers as American suburbs flowered after World War II."  Key created the series in 1943 based on a dream his father had about a bossy maid.  The next morning Key sent the drawing he made from the conversation with his father to editors of the Saturday Evening Post, and within weeks, Hazel, a name Key "picked out of the air", became a regular part of the magazine.  The series lasted until 1969 when the publication folded.  In 1961, the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3003 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Ted Key available:    Otto Soglow,  Noel Douglas Sickles,  Willard Mullin,  Ernie (Ernest Paul) Bushmiller,  Reginald Bathurst Birch,  Joseph De Mers,  Edward Windsor Kemble,  Milton Caniff,  Will Crawford,  Joseph Bowler,  Frederic Gruger,  Jon Whitcomb,  Verne Tossey,  Raeburn Van Buren,  Robert Fawcett,  John Held Jr,  George McManus,  Robert Albert Maguire,  Bob (Kahn) Kane,  Chic (Murat Bernard Young) Young,  Johnny (John T) Craig,  Norman Mills Price,  Herbert Morton Stoops,  Peter Helck



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10 Book References for Ted Key
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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