Crockett Johnson Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology

Creator

Crockett Johnson

Bio

Crockett Johnson was the pen name of cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk (October 20, 1906-July 11, 1975). He is best known for the comic strip Barnaby and the Harold series of books begun with Harold and the Purple Crayon. He was married to the children's book author Ruth Krauss, with whom he collaborated on several books, including The Carrot Seed.

All Series

Barnaby

The beloved comic strip is finally given the Fantagraphics treatment. Barnaby's deft balance of fantasy, political commentary, sophisticated wit, and elegantly spare images expanded our sense of what comic strips can do. Barnaby revolved around a precocious five-year-old named Barnaby Baxter and his fairly godfather Jackeen J. O'Malley. Yet O'Malley, a cigar-chomping, bumbling con-artist and fast-