As any of his own slobbering fans can plainly see, Cartoonist Al (Li’I Abner) Capp dotes on needle-etched caricatures, e.g., Slobbovian Statesman John Foster Dullnik, curly-haired Pianist Loverboy-nik ...

In the middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows’ lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition—”to get published in something that won’t be used to wrap fish in the next ...

Despite their striking resemblance, Li’l Abner, the midcentury comic strip hero, was everything his creator Al Capp was not: an unlettered, unambitious, all-American hillbilly who was strapping ...

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No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle (Fantagraphics; $24.99). The strip that did ...

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Previously published as two separate works: The life and times of the shmoo. 1948; and, The return of the shmoo. 1959. Based on the author's comic strip: Li'l Abner.

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