King Features archives are missing the proof sheet of the Vintage Barney Google and Snuffy Smith dailies for the week of December 5 to December 10, 1949. The Daily Cartoonist Public Service Division presents them below.
Vintage Barney Google and Snuffy Smith – The Missing December 1949 Week
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You often feature webcomics that have a good sequence.
Please revisit The Whiteboard. It just dropped both a friday cliffhanger and a seriously good part of a good sequence.
Thanks so much for posting these! It’s much appreciated.
Thank you!
For the barney/snuffy fans — my records show that the St. Petersburg Times carried this strip from 1932 (if not earlier) thru at least 1969. This paper is available for free in google news archives. For example, the Jan/4/1932 edition is here (the strip is at the top of page 13):
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=feST4K8J0scC&dat=19320104
In the St. Petersburg (now Tampa Bay) Times, Snuffy Smith ran until August 2003.
1. Where can we see Snuffy before Fred Lasswell took over?
2. Does anyone agree with me that John Rose’s strips are unfunny and contain nothing but nice-guy one-liner situations without a speck of interest? What about some conflict and story arcs? Who likes this boring white-bread stuff?
Vintage Barney Google at Comics Kingdom starts with the 1936 strips. By that time Snuffy Smith (introduced in 1934) was increasingly become the star of the strip. Fred Laswell took over the strip in 1943 following Billy DeBeck’s death. So there are seven DeBeck years of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith dailies at Comics Kingdom.
https://comicskingdom.com/barney-google-and-snuffy-smith/1936-01-10?sort=asc