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Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.
!," a self-portrait by Al Capp, excerpted from theApril 16 17, 1951 Li ' l Abner strips.
Alfred G. Caplin eventually became " Al Capp " because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame.
Al Capp drew his own autobiography, the 34-page Al Capp by Li ' l Abner ( 1946 ), distributed to returning WWII amputee veterans.
In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.
( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.
According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.
As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.
Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).
In 1970, he was the subject of a provocative NBC documentary called This Is Al Capp.
His contentious public persona during this period was captured on a late sixties comedy LP called Al Capp On Campus.
Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum ( formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art ), is one of only 31 artists selected to their Hall of Fame.

Al and Studios
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X
* Bray Studios creates the Farmer Al Falfa series, the first of the Terrytoons.
By 1970, Al Bell had become producer, and with Engineer Terry Manning, the family began recording at the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, and Memphis ' Ardent Studios, moving in a more funk and soul direction.
Terry first worked for Bray Studios in 1916, where he created the Farmer Al Falfa series.
The following year, Al went to the West Coast to head up Nestor Studios for Horsley.
Around 1910, the East Coast filmmakers began to take advantage of California winters and after Nestor Studios, run by Canadian Al Christie, built the first permanent movie studio in Hollywood a number of the movie companies expanded or relocated to the new Hollywood.
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Shmoo in Washable Jones ' Travels ( 1950 ) ( Oxydol premium )
* Al Capp Studios, Washable Jones and the Shmoo ( 1953 ) ( Toby Press )
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley in an old building on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.
Al had worked with David Horsley at his Centaur Film Company in Bayonne, New Jersey and moved to California in 1911 to run Nestor Studios, the first ever motion picture studio in Hollywood.
In June 1912, Nestor Studios became part of the newly formed Universal Film Company and Al Christie was put in charge of the comedy companies.
With home base being Hollywood's " General Service Studios ," this early group consisted of some very talented musicians like Earl Palmer, Mel Pollen, Bill Aken, Barney Kessel, and Al Casey.
Ironically, that same day in 1911, David Horsley and Al Christie set up their Nestor Studios in Hollywood sounding the death knell for Edendale as the film production center of Los Angeles.
Al Eugster joined Fleischer Studios in 1929 and remained there until 1934, when he moved to Disney.
Founded by Al Christie in 1911, the Christie Studios occupied a building at the southeast corner of Gower Street and Sunset Boulevard.
An aborted session with Al Green's band was held at Intergalactic Studios on July 24, 1984.
In 2009, Candy Band began recording their fifth album at Rustbelt Studios, with engineer Al Sutton.

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This work was collected by Dark Horse Comics in a four-volume hardcover series entitled Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years.
Al Capp's life and career are the subjects of a new life-sized mural commemorating his 100th birthday.
At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick: His Life and Deaths ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Bald Iggle: The Life it Ruins May Be Your Own ( 1956 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( January 14, 1957 ) " The Dogpatch Saga: Al Capp's Own Story "
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years — 4 volumes ( 2003 2004 ) Dark Horse Comics
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo Vol.
The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.
With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.
The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li ' l Abner.
The term " Skunk Works " came from Al Capp's satirical, hillbilly comic strip Li ’ l Abner, which was immensely popular in the 1940s and ' 50s.
From a recommendation, writer Jerry Caplin, a. k. a. Jerry Capp, brother of Li ' l Abner creator Al Capp, invited Adams to draw samples for Capp's proposed Ben Casey comic strip, based on the popular television medical-drama series.
Daisy Mae ( née Scragg ) Yokum: Beautiful Daisy Mae was hopelessly in love with Dogpatch's most prominent resident throughout the entire 43-year run of Al Capp's comic strip.

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