Snappy Sammy Smoot

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Snappy Sammy Smoot
Created by Skip Williamson
Information
Gender Male
Occupation Dilettante
Nationality US

Snappy Sammy Smoot is a comic book character created and drawn by Skip Williamson. The character appeared in his own comic strips in a number of 1960s underground comix.

Characterization[edit | edit source]

Snappy Sammy Smoot is a counterculture Candide who never loses his innocence.[1]

Adaptation[edit | edit source]

The character was brought to life in the 1960s by the actor Carl Reiner on the TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Reviews[edit | edit source]

  • "The Strange World of Snappy Sammy Smoot: An Interview with Skip Williamson" by Grass Green, The Comics Journal, no 104, January 1986.
  • In Mass Culture Revisited by Bernard Rosenberg, David Manning White writes, "But what is even more interesting about Snappy Sammy Smoot is that it manages to be politically radical at the same time it is satirical and funny" and that it is "one of more highly stylized in the field".

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Harvey, Robert C. The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History