Snuffy Smith
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Snuffy Smith has been for many years the predominant character in the comic strip Barney Google drawn by Fred Lasswell. (In fact, the title character was very seldom seen, or even referred to, after the strip's early years, the title eventually being changed to Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.)
Snuffy is a very stereotypical hillbilly. He lives in a shack, makes moonshine, is in constant trouble with the sheriff, and is very shiftless, occasionally doing a small amount of farm work but primarily working his still and loafing. He also has some proclivity toward stealing chickens. He is very short, wears a broad-brimmed felt hat almost as tall as he is, has a huge mustache, and almost invariably wears a pair of tattered, poorly patched overalls. His speech is ungrammatical in the extreme. In fact, almost all of the characters in the strip (except of course for the occasional visiting "flatlander") were/are stereotypical hillbillies – sharp-tongued gossipy women such as his wife Loweezy (Louisa), his baby, Tater, his neighbors Elviney and Lukey, 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 and beyond.