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 ...
Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l Abner walks a dangerous rope: it often picks its topics out of the headlines, and sometimes finds its humor in the neighborhood of the outhouse. Last week, on both counts, ...
After years of noisy sparring, feuding Cartoonists Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher and Al (Li’l Abner) Capp knocked each other out of the ring last week. In New York Cartoonist Fisher was suspended from the ...
Charles M. Schultz won it for Peanuts. Al Capp won it for L’l Abner. Gary Trudeau won it for Doonesbury. It’s the Reuben Award.