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Capp had earlier provided the Shmoo for a special Children's Savings Bond in 1949, accompanying President Harry S. Truman at the bond's unveiling ceremony.
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" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.
Capp had already decided to become a cartoonist.
Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class.
Capp had it changed legally in 1949.
Whatever energy Abner had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae Scragg, his sexy, well-endowed ( but virtuous ) girlfriend — until Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to marry.
( 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.
Following his close friend Milton Caniff's lead ( with Steve Canyon ), Capp had recently fought a successful battle with the syndicate to gain complete ownership of his feature when the Shmoos debuted.
Capp had often parodied corporate greed — pork tycoon J. Roaringham Fatback had figured prominently in wiping out the Shmoos.
After Capp quit his ghosting job on Ham Fisher's Joe Palooka in 1934 to launch his own strip, Fisher badmouthed him to colleagues and editors, claiming that Capp had " stolen " his idea.
) According to a November 1950 Time article, " Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, ( to put it mildly ) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated.
" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).
Later, it was revealed to be a collaborative hoax that Capp and his longtime pal Saunders had cooked up together.
The Capp-Saunders " feud " fooled both editors and readers, generated plenty of free publicity for both strips — and Capp and Saunders had a good laugh when all was revealed.
No matter how much help he had, Capp insisted on drawing and inking the characters ' faces and hands — especially of Abner and Daisy Mae — himself, and his distinctive touch is often discernible.
" He had the touch ," Frazetta said of Capp in 2008.
He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.
During the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948, the commanders of the Berlin airlift had cabled Capp, requesting inflatable shmoos as part of " Operation: Little Vittles.
He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.
" ( Both Capp and Pyne had wooden legs.
Anderson and his associate Brit Hume confirmed that Capp was shown out of town by university police, but that the incident had been hushed up by the university to avoid negative publicity.
In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.
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Capp portrayed himself in a cameo role in the Bob Hope film That Certain Feeling, ( for which he also provided promotional art ).
Capp provided specialty artwork for civic groups, government agencies and charitable or non-profit organizations, spanning several decades.
Capp and Shmoo
" Capp was the best known, most influential and most controversial cartoonist of his era ," writes publisher ( and leading Shmoo collector ) Denis Kitchen.
* Capp, Al, The Life and Times of the Shmoo ( 1948 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, The Nation ( March 21, 1949 ) " There Is a Real Shmoo "
* Capp, Al, The Return of the Shmoo ( 1959 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo ( 2002 ) Overlook Press ISBN 1-58567-462-1
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo Vol.
It was partly inspired by his apprenticeship days working for Al Capp and his brother Elliot Caplin at Toby Press, which published Shmoo Comics in the late 1940s.
* Capp, Al, The Life and Times of the Shmoo ( 1948 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, The Nation ( March 21, 1949 ) " There Is a Real Shmoo "
* Capp, Al, The Return of the Shmoo ( 1959 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo ( 2002 ) Overlook Press ISBN 1-58567-462-1
* Al Capp Studios, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books ( 2008 ) Dark Horse ISBN 1-59307-901-X
* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Complete Shmoo Vol.
Al Capp offered his version of the origin of the Shmoo in a wryly satirical article, " I Don't Like Shmoos ," in Cosmopolitan ( June 1949 ):
Although initially Capp denied or avoided discussion of any satirical intentions (“ If the Shmoo fits ,” he proclaimed, “ wear it !”), he was widely seen to be stalking bigger game subtextually.
During the remainder of his life, Capp was seldom interviewed without reference to the nature of the Shmoo story.
Al Capp was even invited to go on a radio show to debate socialist Norman Thomas on the effect of the Shmoo on modern capitalism.
According to publisher Denis Kitchen: " For the rest of his career Capp got countless letters people begging him to bring the Shmoo back.
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.
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.
* Capp, Al, The Life and Times of the Shmoo ( 1948 ) Simon & Schuster
* Capp, Al, " There Is a Real Shmoo " ( The Nation, 21 March 1949 )
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