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Snuffy Smith, Barney's hillbilly cousin from Mississippi, was introduced in 1934. Lasswell was 17 when DeBeck hired him as an assistant on the strip. After DeBeck died in 1942, Lasswell took over the ...
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The name comes from a long-running comic strip, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Snuffy is a diminutive, rough hillbilly type living in the remote countryside.
Being the cartoonist for King Features’ Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip has been the greatest joy of John Rose’s professional career. Rose, who will sign copies of his book The ...
The comic strip “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith” began in 1919, 44 years before Rose was born. He took it over in 2001 after the previous artist, Fred Lasswell, passed away.
Lasswell was not the first to author the famous comic. Cartoonist Billy DeBeck began to publish "Take Barney Google, F'rinstance" in June of 1919. It quickly grew in popularity, and in 1934 the ...
Cartoonist Fred Lasswell, who wrote and drew the Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comic strip without interruption for nearly 60 years, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Tampa, Fla. He ...
Lasswell started as an assistant to Bill DeBeck, creator the "Barney Google" comic strip, in 1933 and took over when DeBeck died in 1942. He introduced many of his Snuffy Smith characters in the ...
BRISTOL , Tenn. — Current events have no place in Hootin’ Holler. That’s pretty much the mantra of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith cartoonist John R. Rose, who has helped tell the Appalachian ...
There''s feudin'', fussin'' and a whole lot of good ol'' fashioned fun goin'' on as those back woods rascals, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, rustle up a rib-ticklin'' tub of mountain mirth. Barney ...
View Billy DeBeck Barney Google and Snuffy Smith Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 11-13-37 King Features Syndicate by William Morgan Billy DeBeck on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots ...
Fred Lasswell Barney Google and Snuffy Smith Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 8-10-53 (King Features Syndicate, 1953; 19 x 5 in. (48.3 x 12.7 cm.) close. Medium Ink over graphite on Bristol board ...