Other Artists
Billy DeBeck died of cancer in 1942 at the age of 52. DeBeck’s lifelong assistant Fred Lasswell, a self-described "hayseed" himself, took over Barney Google and Snuffy Smith in 1942. In the 1950s, Lasswell phased out DeBeck's long storylines in favor of a standard gag-a-day format. Lasswell drew the strip until his death on March 3, 2001. Other assistants to DeBeck included Cliff Rogerson (later an editorial cartoonist for Newsday, beginning in 1946) and Paul Fung, Jr.
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