Born in Kensett, Missouri, Fred Lasswell became the creator of the "Snuffy Smith" and "Barney Google" cartoons. "Snuffy Smith" began in 1919 by King Features Syndicate and ran uninterrupted for nearly 60 years. Lasswell took over "Snuffy Smith" in 1942 after the strip's originator, Billy DeBeck, died.
Lasswell had begun working on the cartoon with DeBeck a decade earlier and felt that his experience in rural Florida helped inspire DeBeck's idea about the cartoon's fictional setting, Hoot (showing 500 of 1197 characters). |
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