Barney Google

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Barney Google , later Barney Google and Snuffy Smith , is a comic strip that has been published since 1919. It is the best-known comic strip by its inventor Billy DeBeck and brought DeBeck's successor, Fred Lasswell, the Reuben Award .

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The title character Barney Google - a small man with big eyes - likes to escape his wife and everyday domestic life to hang around as a spectator on various sports facilities, especially on the racecourse. The main task of his much larger wife Lizzie Google is to prevent him from doing so. On July 17, 1922, Barney Google was given the racehorse Spark Plug, which Barney often affectionately calls "brown-eyed baby" and is shown less running than wearing a horse blanket, but is still a successful racehorse. In the 1930s, the hillbilly Snuffy Smith appeared regularly in the comics and then in the title. As the new loser type, he replaced Barney Google.

Publication and draftsman

The inventor of the strip, which appeared for the first time on June 17, 1919, was the American comic artist Billy DeBeck . Barney Google first appeared as a daily strip on the sports pages of the Chicago Herald and Chicago Examiner , as the title character likes to hang out at sports venues. The first Sunday page followed on March 21, 1920. DeBeck was supported in his work by, among others, Joseph Musial and Fred Lasswell , who became his successor after DeBeck's death. Lasswell assisted, among others, Fred Rhoads, Bob Weber and Ray Osrin. After Lasswell's death, John R. Rose , who had previously worked for Lasswell as an Inker , took over the Strip.

In 1978 Illu Press Verlag published a volume drawn by Lasswell with the adventures of Snuffy Smith in German under the title Ma und Pa in USA .

Adaptations and Public Perception

In 1928 and 1929, several short films based on the comic appeared with Barney Hellum as Barney Google. In 1942, the feature film Hillbilly Blitzkrieg was released in which Nazi spies attempt to steal a formula they suspect from Snuffy Smith. The animated short film Spree for All from 1946 is also based on the comic. A twelve-part animated series entitled Snuffy Smith and Barney Google was released in 1963 and 1964.

Billy Rose was inspired by the comic to the text of the successful hit Barney Google (with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes) .

With the appearance of Spark Plug, the comic gained popularity, which resulted in a flood of merchandising products. The nickname Sparky by Peanuts artist Charles M. Schulz has its origins in the comic.

Lasswell received the Reuben Award for Barney Google in 1963 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Musial on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  2. ↑ Fred Rhoads on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  3. ↑ Bob Weber on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  4. ↑ Ray Osrin on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  5. ↑ John Rose on lambiek.net (English) , accessed March 1, 2011
  6. ↑ Ma and Pa in USA & file = h & display = long on comicguide.de , accessed on March 1, 2011
  7. ↑ The character Barney Google on imdb.com (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  8. ↑ Hillbilly Blitzkrieg on imdb.com (English) , accessed March 1, 2011
  9. ↑ Spree for All at imdb.com (English) , accessed on March 1, 2011
  10. ↑ Snuffy Smith and Barney Google at imdb.com , accessed March 1, 2011
  11. ↑ Billy Rose's biography on imdb.com (English) , accessed March 1, 2011
  12. ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 162-163.
  13. ^ Biography of Charles M. Schulz at schulzmuseum.org (English) , accessed on February 1, 2016
  14. ↑ CHARLES M. SCHULZ - The long way to the peanuts ( Memento from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ REUBEN AWARD WINNERS 1946-PRESENT ( Memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )