2023 BARNEY GOOGLE & SNUFFY SMITH - Snuffy Glass Ornament

Add a personalized touch to your holiday season with Snuffy Smith on a gold-colored ribbon. Our 2023 BARNEY GOOGLE & SNUFFY SMITH ornament features a beveled edge and one very festive Snuffy!

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith is one of the longest-running comic strips in history. Created by Billy DeBeck in 1919, it first appeared in the sports section of the Chicago Herald and Examiner as Take Barney Google, F'rinstance. It starred the cigar-smoking, sports-loving, poker-playing, girl-chasing ne'er-do-well Barney Google. By October of that year, the strip was distributed by King Features to newspapers all across the country. In 1934, Barney Google met Snuffy Smith, a hillbilly who soon eclipsed him in popularity. Soon after this meeting, the strip became known as Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.  In 1942, the comic strip was inherited by DeBeck’s long-time assistant, Fred Lasswell, who continued to draw the strip until his death in March 2001. Lasswell, a master of the sight gag, really developed the hillbilly characters of Hootin’ Holler. John Rose, who inked the strip for Lasswell, has carried on the bodacious tradition of being the strip’s cartoonist since 2001.