The comic strip Barnaby by Crockett Johnson (best known toay for his children's books, such as Harold and the Purple Crayon) featured an almost cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic fairy godfather, Mr. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. Barnaby got in a fair number of scrapes, but most of them were either of Mr. O'Malley's making or resulted in embarrassment of some sort for the rather clumsy fairy godfather. Mr. O'Malley was a member of the Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society.