Existing comment:
(65) Barney Google. "Lo'wizie--go fotch th' bar'ls whut air scattered rounderbout an' stack 'em up bodaciously ... ," 1935. Published by King Features Syndicate, Inc., March 10, 1935. Ink over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03467 (65)
With the rising popularity of hillbilly comic strips in the 1930s, Billy DeBeck took his title character, Barney Google, to Hootin' Holler in the mountains of North Carolina and introduced two new characters to his comic strip, Snuffy Smith and his wife Lo'wizie. The hard-working Lo'wizie always contrasted sharply with the lazy Snuffy. William Morgan "Billy" de Beck (1890-1942) began Barney Google in 1919. Fred Lasswell, who had been DeBeck's assistant on the strip when the characters moved to Hootin' Holler, took over and continued the strip from 1942 until his death in 2001. |