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 beloved comic strip set in Dog Patch, USA tells the tale of Mammy and Pappa Yokum, Stupefyin' Jones, Evil Eye Fleagle, Appassionata von Climax, Marryin' Sam, Daisy Mae and, of course, Li'l ...

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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 ...

IDW has announced The Complete Li'l Abner through its Library of American Comics imprint. The series of graphic novels will collect the complete body of Al Capp's classic comedy strips including ...

Reader Terrence O’Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp’s comic strip, Li’l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O’Toole: ...

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, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Li'l Abner was created and drawn by ...

19 x 21.75 in. (48.3 x 55.2 cm.) ...