Hazel (comics)

Hazel was a single panel comic strip by Ted Key that appeared for many years in the last pages of The Saturday Evening Post, beginning in 1943. She was a maid for the well to do Baxter family. In the early 1960s, she was played by Shirley Booth in a television sitcom series with Don Defore, Whitney Blake, and Bobby Buntrock as the Baxters. In 1977, Key received the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Award for Hazel.