April 19, 2024
BILLY DEBECK -- BARNEY GOOGLE... original daily comic strip art 5/1/1933
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This is one of 2 DeBeck dailies from the Bakshi Collection for sale on Ebay. It is 3 panels, measuring 5 x 18". DATE: May 1, 1933. The title: SULLEY CORRECTS THE TIME. Enjoy!History: 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. DeBeck drew with a scratchy line in a "big-foot" style, in which characters had giant feet and bulbous noses. His strips often reflected his love of sports. On July 17, 1919, Debeck began a new comic strip on the sports page : Take Barney Google, For Instance . I t was about a henpecked, sports-obsessed husband and his travails defying his wife. Google was interested in non-fictional sports stories, such as the heavyweight championship between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey . It was not long before DeBeck refigured the tall, thin Google into the short, squat character he was to be remembered as, and the title too was soon shortened to Barney Google . , and then Snuffy Smith was added. It was not popular until DeBeck had Google acquire a race horse named Spark Plug (nicknamed "Sparky" ) in a strip dated July 17, 1922. The dilapidated, blanket-covered horse became such a marketing and merchandising phenomenon that the character has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s--toys,
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