Page "Al Capp" Paragraph 47

Milton Caniff offered another anecdote ( from Phi Beta Pogo, 1989 ) involving Capp and Walt Kelly, " two boys from Bridgeport, Connecticut, nose to nose ," onstage at a meeting of the Newspaper Comics Council in the sixties.

" Walt would say to Al, ' Of course, Al, this is really how you should draw Daisy Mae, I'm only showing you this for your own good.

' Then Walt would do a sketch.

Capp, of course, got ticked off by this, as you can imagine!

So he retaliated by doing his version of Pogo.

Unfortunately, the drawings are long gone ; no recording was made.

What a shame!

Nobody anticipated there'd be this dueling back and forth between the two of them ...."