In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

Capp was also involved with the Sister Kenny Foundation, which pioneered new treatments for polio in the 1940s.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

" ( Capp also spoofed Carson in his strip, in a 1970 episode called " The Tommy Wholesome Show.

Capp portrayed himself in a cameo role in the Bob Hope film That Certain Feeling, ( for which he also provided promotional art ).

Capp also freelanced very successfully as a magazine writer and newspaper columnist, in a wide variety of publications including Life, Show, Pageant, The Atlantic, Esquire, Coronet, and The Saturday Evening Post.

In addition to his public service work for charitable organizations for the handicapped, Capp also served on the National Reading Council, which was organized to combat illiteracy.

Capp was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2004.

Capp also had a knack for popularizing certain uncommon terms, such as druthers, schmooze and nogoodnik, neatnik, etc.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

In addition to Capp, Jerry Brondfield also wrote for the strip, with Adams stepping in occasionally.

The Mirror also runs a cartoon strip called Mandy, which started life as Mandy Capp.

Capp designed her in caricature of his wife Catherine ( minus the dirt ), who had also suggested Daisy Mae's name.

Capp also excelled at product endorsement, and Li ' l Abner characters were often featured in mid-century American advertising campaigns.

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming PBS American Masters documentary produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

Capp has also been credited with popularizing many terms, such as " natcherly ," schmooze, druthers, and nogoodnik, neatnik, etc.

" Capp was also caricatured as an ill-mannered, boozy cartoonist ( Capp was a teetotaler in real life ) named " Hal Rapp " in the comic strip Mary Worth by Allen Saunders and Ken Ernst.

Declaring that satire was also protected free speech, he refused to order Capp to cease and desist.

There was also a separate line of comic books, Al Capp's Shmoo Comics ( featuring Washable Jones ), published by the Capp family-owned Toby Press. Comics historian and Li ' l Abner expert Denis Kitchen recently edited a complete collection of all five original Shmoo Comics, from 1949 and 1950.

Based on the comic strip Li ' l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies, but it is also a pointed satire on broader topics, ranging from incompetence in the United States federal government to standards of masculinity.

He also made appearances in a number of other TV shows, including the first series of Starting Out, Boon, Minder, Dear John, Farrington of the F. O., Z-Cars, Andy Capp, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Blake's 7, and Casualty.

The Ice Capp can also be prepared as a Supreme, which includes a flavour shot, whipped topping, and either caramel or chocolate syrup.

Another " feud " seemed to be looming when, in one run of Sunday strips in 1957, Capp lampooned the comic strip Mary Worth as " Mary Worm.

In a run of Li ' l Abner Sunday strips in 1957, Al Capp lampooned Mary Worth as " Mary Worm ".

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

Capp became a popular public speaker on college campuses, where he reportedly relished hecklers.

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.

: Capp used Li ' l Abner to satirize current events, fads, and ephemeral popular culture ( such as zoot suits in " Zoot Suit Yokum ," 1943 ).

In 1946 Capp persuaded six of the most popular radio personalities ( Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Danny Kaye, Bob Hope, Fred Waring and Smilin ' Jack Smith ) to broadcast a song he'd written for Daisy Mae: ( Li ' l Abner ) Don't Marry That Girl !!

Later, many fans and critics saw Paul Henning's popular TV sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies ( 1962 –' 71 ) as owing much of its inspiration to Li ' l Abner, prompting Alvin Toffler to ask Capp about the similarities in a 1965 Playboy interview.

A musical version of the popular comic strip Li ' l Abner was first planned in 1946, with the book to be written by the comic strip's author, Al Capp.

In British popular culture the flat cap has been associated with older working class men, especially those in northern England, and the west country, as personified by Fred Dibnah and comic strip anti-hero Andy Capp.

Hillbilly humor was extremely popular at the time, ( as Al Capp was proving with Li ' l Abner ).

It was the idea of Al Capp, who intended to start a second strip to build upon the success of his popular Li ' l Abner.

In December 1952, Capp published an article in Real magazine titled “ The REAL Powers in America ” that further challenged the conventional attitudes of the day: " The real powers in America are women — the wives and sweethearts behind the masculine dummies ..."

In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November ( Capp never specified an exact date ).

During their seven day stay, they invited Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, and others, and all but Capp sang on the peace anthem " Give Peace a Chance ", recorded by André Perry in the hotel room on June 1.

During most of his tenure with Capp, Frazetta's primary responsibility — along with various specialty art, such as a series of Li ' l Abner greeting cards — was tight-penciling the Sunday pages from studio roughs.

Alongside his long-established caricatures of right-wing, big business types such as General Bullmoose and J. Roaringham Fatback, Capp began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez ( in the character of Joanie Phoanie, a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage ten thousand dollars ' worth of " protest songs ").

The album features his interaction with students at Fresno State College ( now California State University, Fresno ) on such topics as " sensitivity training ," " humanitarianism ," " abstract art " ( Capp hated it ), and of course, " student protest.

Since then he has gone on to become one of the highest-paid stars on British TV, mostly in comedies, appearing in shows such as Only When I Laugh ( as Roy Figgis ), The Beiderbecke Affair ( as Trevor Chaplin ), The Beiderbecke Tapes, Andy Capp ( in the title role ), The Beiderbecke Connection, Second Thoughts ( as Bill MacGregor ), Midsomer Murders, Pay and Display, Dalziel and Pascoe, Close and True, Born and Bred ( as Dr. Arthur Gilder ), and New Tricks ( as Jack Halford ).

His credits, many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as That Was The Week That Was, BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s, the book for the 1975 musical The Card, Budgie, Worzel Gummidge, and Andy Capp ( an adaptation of the comic strip ).

: Knock-offs, such as Associated Press's Mister Gilfeather ( which, by the way, was handled at various times by both Al Capp and Milton Caniff, before they hit it big with Li ' l Abner and Terry & the Pirates, respectively ), began to proliferate.

They carry names such as " The Sphinx ", " Tam o ' Shanter ", " Andy Capp " and " Madonna and Child ", a particularly fine example known as the " Lobsters Claw " partly collapsed several years ago due to natural erosion.