William Morgan DeBeck (1890-04-15)April 15, 1890 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died
November 11, 1942(1942-11-11) (aged 52) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality
American
Area(s)
Cartoonist
Notable works
Barney Google
Collaborators
Paul Fung, Fred Lasswell
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, later retitled Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. The strip was especially popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and featured a number of well-known characters, including the title character, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and Spark Plug the race horse. Spark Plug was a merchandising phenomenon, and has been called the Snoopy of the 1920s.
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. In 1946, the National Cartoonists Society inaugurated the Billy DeBeck Memorial Awards (or the Barney Awards), which became the Reuben Award in 1954.
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The earliest NCS award was the BillyDeBeck Memorial Award, also known as "the Barney" from the character in BillyDeBeck's popular comic strip Barney Google...
leading strip artists worked in the years before the first Reuben and BillyDeBeck Awards in 1946. Webcomics are comic strips that exist only on the World...
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slang for "nonsense, rubbish, balderdash," attributed originally to BillyDeBeck. As a work published in 1932 and renewed within 28 years, it will enter...
the Vietnam War. Crane was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's BillyDeBeck Memorial Award, later renamed the Reuben Award, for Cartoonist of the...
Visualizing Gotham: The Production Design of Batman, 2005, Warner Home Video. "BillyDeBeck - Lambiek Comiclopedia". "Al Taliaferro - Lambiek Comiclopedia". Countdown...
Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, BillyDeBeck, George McManus, and Milt Gross. At about this same time, Capp became...
argues that comic strips Li'l Abner by Al Capp and Barney Google by BillyDeBeck, which both began in 1934, caricatured the laziness and weakness for...
which attracted the attention of Barney Google creator BillyDeBeck. Impressed with the poster, DeBeck hired Lasswell to assist him as a letterer. Only seventeen...
bdoubliees.com. Archived from the original on 2000-04-24. "Jijé". lambiek.net. "Roland Davies". "BillyDeBeck". lambiek.net. "Fred Harman". "John Gee"....
Paris in 1929, Musial started out his cartooning career as assistant to BillyDeBeck, creator of Barney Google, in the early 1930s. He subsequently worked...
drawn on the work of cartoon artists from earlier generations, including BillyDeBeck (Barney Google), C. E. Brock (an old story book illustrator), Gene Ahern's...
on the Asthmatic Kitty label Bunky (comic strip), a comic created by BillyDeBeck Bunky board, support for a bunk bed Bunkie (disambiguation) Bunki, an...
1916–1927) The Clancy Kids by Percy Crosby (1916–c. 1919) Finn an' Haddie by BillyDeBeck (1916) Miss Information by Wood Cowan (1919–1922; moved to the Ledger...
Brightwaters Boulevard in St. Petersburg. Their nearby neighbor was cartoonist BillyDeBeck, who lived within walking distance at 321 Brightwaters Boulevard on Coffee...
came to Chicago Herald in 1893 during World's Columbian Exposition BillyDeBeck, cartoonist, creator of comic strip Barney Google John Denson, editor;...
Kane) and Superman (Joe Shuster) credit him (alongside Milton Caniff, BillyDeBeck and Roy Crane) as having had a strong influence on their artistic development...
"Free Bird" alongside ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, Ben Harper, and O'Brien himself on guitar. On March 1, 2014, Beck was the musical guest on a Saturday...
New York. The comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, created by BillyDeBeck, debuted in the Chicago Herald and Chicago Examiner. Born: Beryl Reid...
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