Snuffy Smith has been for many years the predominant character in the syndicated newspaper comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, created by Billy DeBeck and later drawn by Fred Lasswell from 1942 until 2001 (when Laswell died). The strip is currently drawn by John Rose. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Barney Google, is a long-running American comic strip. ... William Morgan Billy de Beck was a popular and very widely published cartoonist as well as a writer. ... Fred Lasswell (July 25, 1916-March 4, 2001) is an American cartoonist best known for his work on the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. ...

Snuffy is a very stereotypical hillbilly. He lives in a shack, makes moonshine, is in constant trouble with the sheriff, and is very shiftless, occasionally doing a small amount of farm work but primarily working his still and loafing. He also has some proclivity toward stealing chickens, which led to a brief but effective use of his character in a marketing campaign by the Tyson Foods corporation in the early 1980's. He is very short, wears a broad-brimmed felt hat almost as tall as he is, has a huge mustache, and almost invariably wears a pair of tattered, poorly patched overalls. He constantly cheats at poker and checkers. His speech is ungrammatical in the extreme. In fact, almost all of the characters in the strip (except of course for the occasional visiting "flatlander") were/are stereotypical hillbillies – sharp-tongued gossipy women such as his wife Loweezy (Louisa), his baby, Tater, his nephew Jughaid (Jughead), his neighbors Elviney and Lukey, the sanctimonious (but nonetheless ungrammatical) Parson, Sheriff Tait with his huge, star-shaped badge, Silas, the owner of the General Store, and many others. All vehicles were rundown jalopies of a seeming 1920s vintage, even in the 1970s and beyond. For the 1996 Blur single, see Stereotypes (song). ... Hillbilly is a term referring to people who dwell in remote, rural, mountainous areas. ... Shine Road The name tells the history of this back road in Hemingway, South Carolina Revenue men at the site of moonshine stills, Kentucky, 1911 or before Moonshine (sometimes known as Poitín, mooney, moon, creek water, hooch, Portuguese grape juice, white lightning, and many others) is a common slang... Look up Sheriff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Tyson Foods, Inc. ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ...

External links

• Official site at King Features Syndicate
• Snuffy Smith entry at Toonopedia