Snuffy Smith
Snuffy Smith was for many years the predominant character in the comic strip Barney Google drawn by Fred Laswell. (In fact, the title character was very seldom seen, or even referred to, after the strip's early years.)
Snuffy was a very stereotypical hillbilly. He lived in a shack, made moonshine, was in constant trouble with the sheriff, and was very shiftless, occasionally doing a small amount of farm work but primarily working his still and loafing. He also had some proclivity toward stealing chickens. He was very short, wore a broad-brimmed felt hat almost as tall as he was, had a huge mustache, and almost invariably wore a pair of tattered, poorly patched overalls. His speech was ungrammatical in the extreme. In fact, almost all of the characters in the strip (except of course for the occassional visiting "flatlander") were stereotypical hillbillies -- sharp-tounged gossipy women such as his wife "Weesy" (Louisa?) and her friend Elvira, the sanctimonious (but nonetheless ungrammatical) Parson, the burly sheriff with his huge, star-shaped badge, and many others. All vehicles were rundown jalopies of a seeming 1920s vintage, even in the 1970s. The humor was so broad, and the stereotyping gentle in its own way, and apparently hillbillies were less sensitive than most groups who are the brunt of stereotypical jokes, for the strip seemed to run its course and vanish without falling victim to political correctness.
