William Morgan "Billy" De Beck (April 15, 1890 - November 11, 1942) was a popular cartoonist and writer who was widely published. He created some of the memorable comic strip characters of the 1920s and 1930s, including Barney Google, Bunky, Snuffy Smith and the racehorse Spark Plug. He was born and grew up in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied at the Chicago Academy of...
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- 1890
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- 1942
