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Teena is a comic strip about a teenage girw, created by Hiwda Terry. It ran from Juwy 1, 1944 to 1963, distributed by King Features Syndicate.

The strip evowved from Terry's earwier Sunday feature, It's a Girw's Life, a cowwection of gag cartoons which first appeared in newspapers on Sunday, December 14, 1941.[1] The format dispwayed six panews about de reactions of teenage girws to Worwd War II.

Comics historian Don Markstein noted:

They awso couwd be marketed as a daiwy feature, but wartime paper shortages prevented dat. The main characters were named Henny and Penny... In 1943, Harry Haenigsen waunched his own girw-protagonist strip, titwed Penny. In response, Terry dropped hers and started a more traditionawwy-formatted Sunday comic about a simiwar character wif a different name. "Tina" was a good candidate for de new one's name, but de word "teenager" was just coming into vogue, so dat was de spewwing used. Teena started on Juwy 1, 1944. Teena's much younger sister, Gwendowyn, was added to de cast water. Things went weww for Terry and Teena for about 20 years, untiw a generaw decwine in de newspaper business forced de cartoonist to find work ewsewhere. She eventuawwy wound up in de burgeoning fiewd of computer animation, for which she won an award in 1979 from de Nationaw Cartoonists Society she'd been instrumentaw in opening up a generation earwier. As for Teena, sources differ as to de exact year of de comic's demise, ranging from 1963 to '66. There is wittwe doubt, however, dat Hiwda Terry's comics creations are a part of comics history dat hasn't been seen in years.[2]

In Denmark, de strip was known as Tina.

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  1. ^ Howtz, Awwan (2012). American Newspaper Comics: An Encycwopedic Reference Guide. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. pp. 377–378. ISBN 9780472117567.
  2. ^ Markstein, Don, uh-hah-hah-hah. Toonopedia.

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