Smitty was a newspaper comic strip created in the early 1920s by Walter Berndt.

The strip featured young office boy Augustus Smith aka Smitty, his six-year-old brother Herby, his girlfriend Ginny and his dog Scraps.

"[2] As the strip progressed, the teenage Smitty aged to young adulthood (approximately 13 to 23) and eventually got married.

From January 11, 1938 through 1974, Berndt also produced the comic strip Herby as a topper to Smitty on the Sunday page.

Yet it did not begin without a struggle, as cartoonist Mike Lynch described in a 2005 lecture: Smitty merchandising included tin toys, Cupples & Leon reprint books, comic books and sheet music for the song "Smitty".