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.

Steinbrenner, a Cleveland-area native, had hired former Indians star Al Rosen as his team president ( replacing another Cleveland figure, Gabe Paul ).

Exceptions came in the elections of 1976, when every former Confederate state but Virginia voted for Georgia native Jimmy Carter, and 1992 and 1996, when the Democratic ticket of southerners Bill Clinton ( Arkansas ) and Al Gore ( Tennessee ) achieved a split of the region's electoral votes.

Koch endorsed Tennessee Senator Al Gore, who had run well in his native south, but hadn't won 20 % in a northern state.

Al Lopez, Baseball Hall of Fame manager, first Tampa native to play Major League Baseball

Copeland's is a restaurant chain started by New Orleans native Al Copeland in 1983.

She also wrote for the Spanish individualist anarchist magazine Al Margen alongside Miguel Gimenez Igualada

The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection ( Crippen & Landru, 2010 ) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk / Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

Popeil has been referenced in the music of Alice Cooper, the Beastie Boys, and " Weird Al " Yankovic, who wrote a parody song entitled " Mr. Popeil " which was a tribute to Ron Popeil's father, Samuel Popeil.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

With the exception of You Know Me Al, which was initially written and published as six separate stories, Lardner never wrote a novel, but is considered by many to be one of America's best writers of the short story.

For Deh, vieni he wrote Al desio di chi t ' adora – " and fly To the desire of one who adores you " ( K. 577 ) in July 1789, and for Venite, inginocchiatevi!

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.

In Tel Aviv Goldberg worked as a high-school teacher and wrote in the Hebrew newspapers Davar, and Al HaMishmar, including its children's magazine " Mishmar Liyladim ".

Sports author Dick Crouser wrote, " When the late Al Helfer was broadcasting the Oakland A's games, he was not too enthusiastic about Reggie Jackson's speed or his hustle.

" Bogle wrote that his inspiration for starting an index fund came from three sources, all of which confirmed his 1951 research: Paul Samuelson's 1974 paper, " Challenge to Judgment ", Charles Ellis ' 1975 study, " The Loser's Game ", and Al Ehrbar's 1975 Fortune magazine article on indexing.

* Mad editor Al Feldstein, who was stationed in Blytheville during World War II, later wrote a science fiction story set in Blytheville, " Chewed Out ," Weird Science 12 ( March 1952 ).

* Al Aronowitz ( 1928 – 2005 ), rock journalist who claimed that Bob Dylan wrote his famous " Mr. Tambourine Man " in Aronowitz's former Berkeley Heights home.

Mimi Pond wrote the episode and staff writer Al Jean came up with the title.

Jackson, who had been in Hi Records producer Willie Mitchell's band, played on and wrote many of Al Green's biggest hits.

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was " Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements ( including strings and horns ), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work.

Revealing an important key to the story, Al Capp himself wrote that the Shmoo metaphorically represented the limitless bounty of the earth in all its richness — in essence, Mother Nature herself.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, McKinney wrote that " Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high.

They also wrote a comic strip, Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondent, which was drawn from 1939 to 1943 by Jack Sparling, and from 1943 onward by Al Plastino.

He later wrote comedy for such other variety programs as the " Chase and Sanborn Hour with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy ," " The Lifebuoy Program starring Al Jolson ," " The Gulf Screen Guild Show ," and " The Rudy Vallee Program.

" Weird Al " Yankovic wrote and recorded a tribute song titled " CNR ", jokingly caricaturing Reilly with parodies of the internet phenomenon Chuck Norris Facts, with absurdities like winning the Tour de France " with two flat tires and a missing chain ", or how " every day he'd make the host of Match Game give him a piggyback ride ".

Long-time sports writer Jerry Magee of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote: " Al Davis taking over as commissioner was the strongest thing the AFL ever did.

1896 ), while in transit in Spain's Cárcel Modelo of Madrid, he wrote some of his best poetry, like " Al Caer la Nieve "

And he is also the editor of the 1973 book Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Chi by Chungliang Al Huang, to which he and Barry Stevens wrote the preface.

* Canadian poet Al Purdy wrote a poem entitled " Lament for the Dorsets " which starts " Animal bones and some mossy tent rings ... all that remains of Dorset giants, who drove the Vikings back to their longships ..." This poem laments the loss of their culture and describes them and their end.