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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Take Barney Google, for Instance, [1] [note 1] is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck.Since its debut on June 17, 1919, [3] the strip has gained a large international readership, appearing in 900 newspapers in 21 countries.
William Morgan DeBeck (April 15, 1890 – November 11, 1942), better known as Billy DeBeck, was an American cartoonist.He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip Barney Google, later retitled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.
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He is most famous as the creator of the comic strip Barney Google (later retitled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith). The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith and Spark Plug the race horse.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was drawn by Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace): Dennis "helps" Jughaid with a "kick me" sign, and Elviney and Lowezey resemble Alice and Mrs. Wilson. Dennis the Menace was drawn by Fred Lasswell (Barney Google and Snuffy Smith): The Dennis the Menace characters dress like those of Snuffy Smith for a group photo.
Image credits: drawerofdrawings Lastly, D.C. Stuelpner shared with us the most rewarding aspects of being a comic artist: “A lot of my work-for-hire art jobs never see the light of day.
Snuffy was immediately popular, leading to a surge in demand for the comic strip. Throughout the 1930s, DeBeck continued to mentor Lasswell, sending him to work with preeminent illustrators of the era and to study at the Art Students League of New York. [2] After DeBeck's death in 1942, Lasswell subsequently took over as the lead cartoonist of ...
Private Snuffy Smith (reissued as Snuffy Smith, Yardbird) is a 1942 American army comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Bud Duncan as comic-strip character Snuffy Smith and Edgar Kennedy as his commanding officer. A sequel, Hillbilly Blitzkrieg, was released later in 1942 and also featured Duncan and Kennedy.