O'Malley was real and took Barnaby to a number of child psychologists. Baxter's office).īarnaby's parents denied that Mr. However, quite a number of their adventures had surprising results (such as uncovering a gang of criminals hiding their loot in a supposedly haunted house, Barnaby's winning a scrap iron contest while out searching for a leprechaun's pot of gold, and unmasking a spy working in Mr. O'Malley's making or resulted in embarrassment of some sort for the rather clumsy fairy godfather, a member of the Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society. O'Malley that frequently got the pair of them into a fair number of scrapes. From that moment on, Barnaby began a series of adventures with Mr. J.) O'Malley, who announced that he was Barnaby's fairy godfather. One night after having been read a fairy tale involving a fairy godmother by his mother, Barnaby Baxter was totally surprised to receive a visit through his bedroom window by the cigar-wielding and pink wings-wearing Jackeen J. The usually caustic Dorothy Parker had nothing but praise: "I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that Barnaby and his friends and oppressors are the most important additions to American Arts and Letters in Lord knows how many years." Characters and story With a distinctive appearance because of its use of typography, the strip had numerous reprints and was adapted into a 1940s stage production. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. O'Malley, Gorgon Baxter, Barnaby Baxter and Jane Shultzīarnaby is a comic strip which began April 20, 1942, in the newspaper PM and was later syndicated in 64 American newspapers (for a combined circulation of more than 5,500,000).Ĭreated by Crockett Johnson, who is best known today for his children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon, the strip featured a cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic fairy godfather, Jackeen J.
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