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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
I always enjoy reading the letters on the Opinion page of The Press. I particularly enjoyed the Nov. 4 letter, "Buy out homes in Mystic Islands," in which the writer used a "Three Little Pigs" analogy ...