Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold (1986) Barnaby #5: Mr. O'Malley, Wizard of Wall Street (1986) Barnaby #6: J.J. O'Malley Goes Hollywood (1986) Magic Beach (2005), with an appreciation by Maurice Sendak and an Afterword by Philip Nel Barnaby, Volume One: 1942-1943 (2013), with a Foreword by Chris Ware and essays by Jeet Heer, Dorothy Parker, and Philip Nel Barnaby, Volume Two: 1944-1945 (2014), with a Foreword by Jules Feiffer and essays by R.C. Harvey, Max Lerner, and Philip Nel Barnaby, Volume Three: 1946-1947 (2016), with a Foreword by Jeff Smith (cartoonist) and essays by Nathalie op de Beeck, Coulton Waugh, and Philip Nel The Barnaby #1 to #6 books, published in paperback by Ballantine Books under the Del Rey imprint in 1985, were compilations of the first few years of the comic strip. Additional books were supposed to appear, but publication was suspended upon the death of Judy Lynn Del Rey. In 2013, Fantagraphics began republishing Barnaby. The five-volume collection, featuring all ten years of Barnaby, is expected to be complete in 2019. A 1946 play, "Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley", was based on the comic strip. It played in several East Coast cities, attracting attention mainly for a scene in which O'Malley flew over the audience throwing out leaflets urging support for his Congressional race. Johnson said the child cast as Barnaby looked more like the cartoon Barnaby than any real child he ever expected to see, Producer—Barney Josephson; Script--Jerome Chodorov; O'Malley--J. M. Kerrigan; Barnaby--Thomas Wm. Hamilton; Jane—Iris Mann; McSnoyd--Royal Dano See also References Further reading All by Philip Nel Crockett Johnson website At The Comics Journal "Before Barnaby: Crockett Johnson Grows Up and Turns Left" "Crockett Johnson and the Invention of Barnaby" Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (2012) External links Crockett Johnson at Lambiek Comiclopedia (lambiek.net) Barnaby comic strip in The Advertiser (Adelaide), January 18, 1947 1906 births 1975 deaths American children's book illustrators American children's writers American comic strip cartoonists Artists from New York City Cooper Union alumni Deaths from lung cancer Writers from New York City