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| comic strips started in the 1910s | |
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The comic was created by Billy DeBeck in 1919, first appearing in the sports section of the ''Chicago Herald and Examiner'' as ''Take Barney Google, F'rinstance''. By October 1919, the strip was Syndicated by King Features , allowing it to appear in newspapers all across the country. Fred Lasswell , DeBeck's lifelong assistant, took over ''Barney Google'' in 1942 . Lasswell drew the strip until his death on March 3 , 2001 . John Rose , who inked the strip for Lasswell, draws the comic today. The strip won for Lasswell the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award and Reuben Award in 1963. ''Barney Google'' appears in 21 countries and 11 languages. It is credited with introducing several slang phrases, including "sweet mama," "horsefeathers," "heebie-jeebies," and "hotsie-totsie." The strip also inspired the popular 1920s song "Barney Google (With the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes)". In 1995 , the strip was one of twenty included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative US Postage Stamps . Barney Google's face is immortalized in the Polk County, Iowa courthouse (in Des Moines). Sometime between 1901 and 1906, an artist chiseling grotesques on the walls near the ceilings carved Barney Google's face as a gag. His boss was not impressed and ordered him to add some vines around his head and to call him a "Grecian God." The face is cleary Barney Google, and this story was reported in the Des Moines Register in 2005. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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