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Al Capp was an American cartoonist best known for creating the satirical comic strip Li’l Abner, which he wrote and drew from 1934 to 1977. He also created other popular comic strips and received numerous awards for his contributions to the field of cartooning.
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Alfred Gerald Caplindrawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an’ Slatsand Long Sam (1954). He won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously for his “unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning”.
Capp’s comic strips dealt with urban experiences in the Northern United States until the year he introduced “Li’l Abner”. Although Capp was from Connecticut, he spent 43 years writing about the fictional Southern town of Dogpatch, reaching an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally. M. Thomas Inge says Capp made a large personal fortune through the strip and “had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South”.
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Al Capp, whose full name was Alfred Gerald Caplin, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for creating the satirical comic strip Li’l Abner, which he wrote and drew from 1934 to 1977.
In addition to Li’l Abner, Al Capp also created the comic strips Abbie an’ Slats (1937-1945) and Long Sam (1954).
Al Capp won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award, posthumously, for his ‘unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning’.
Although Al Capp was from Connecticut, the majority of his comic strips, including Li’l Abner, were set in the fictional Southern town of Dogpatch, which he wrote about for 43 years.
Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip reached an estimated 60 million readers in more than 900 American newspapers and 100 more papers in 28 countries internationally.
According to M. Thomas Inge, Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South.
Al Capp created the Li’l Abner comic strip in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing it until 1977.
11 Quotes by Al Capp
- 1.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Cappcartoonist (1909-1979)
- 2.
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
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- 3.
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
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- 4.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.
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- 5.
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
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- 6.
Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
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- 7.
Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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- 8.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
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- 9.
The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
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- 10.
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.
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- 11.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
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