Barnaby CROCKETT JOHNSON (1906–1975) is the pen name
of David Johnson Leisk, who drew the Barnaby comic strip in the
newspaper PM starting in 1942. It was later syndicated in
fifty-two American newspapers and collected into the books
Barnaby and Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley. He is the creator
of the classic series of children’s books Harold and the Purple
Crayon . |
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