May 1, 2022
Brotherhood Of Billy Goats
Membership card for a secret fraternity organized in 1927 and 1928 by Barney Google (and the comic strip's creator, Billy DeBeck).
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Brotherhood Of Billy Goats
Membership card for a secret fraternity organized in 1927 and 1928 by Barney Google (and the comic strip's creator, Billy DeBeck).
Happy Birthday to the late Billy DeBeck!
Fun fact: His famous comic strip Barney Google probably inspired the naming of the number googol, which in turn inspired the name of a certain search engine.
Barney Google: The Art of the Petty Schemer
Barney Google: The Art of the Petty Schemer
Billy DeBeck described his own comic anti-hero as a “low-life” with a heart, but it took a few years from Barney Google’s introduction in 1919 for DeBeck to find his real character. Barney started as yet another henpecked husband, a servile schemer whose daily antics focused on outflanking his overbearing wife. From the start, however, DeBeck’s imagination veered towards outlandish solutions to…
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Billy DeBeck was never president of the United States.
Original Barney Google Sunday strip by Billy DeBeck, published by King Features Syndicate, September 8, 1935.
E.C. Segar, George Herriman, Billy DeBeck, Frank King, Alex Raymond, Lyman Young, Cliff Sterrett, Frederick Burr Opper, Harold Gray, George McManus, Frank Godwin: sketches done in the 1930s for Louis Staub, a New York printer and collector.
Original, hand-colored Barney Google and Snuffy Smith Sunday strip by Billy DeBeck, published by King Features Syndicate, December 14, 1941.
The Father of a Thousand Girls
Harrison Fisher’s illustrations of beautiful women, and particularly American women, earned him this accolade from Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1910. “Fisher Girls,” as they were called, were identified as elegant, athletic, intelligent and independent.
VCU Libraries’ copy of Bachelor Belles was once owned by Billy DeBeck, creator of the comic strip, Barney Google. (Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, NC 1075.F526 1908)