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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.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut of Russian Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto Philip and Matilda ( Davidson ) Caplin.
This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.
" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.
Attending three of them in rapid succession, the impoverished Capp was thrown out of each for nonpayment of tuition — the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Designers Art School in Boston — the latter before launching his amazing career.
" I heard that Bud Fisher ( creator of Mutt and Jeff ) got $ 3, 000 a week and was constantly marrying French countesses ," Capp said.
By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.
Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.
" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.
“ It ’ s phonetic Hebrew — that ’ s what it is, all right — and that ’ s what I was getting at with the name Yokum, more so than any attempt to sound hickish ," said Capp.
" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.
On the other hand Liberace was " cut to the quick " over Loverboynik, according to Capp, and even threatened legal action — as would Joan Baez later, over " Joanie Phoanie " in 1967.
Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.
Capp was also involved with the Sister Kenny Foundation, which pioneered new treatments for polio in the 1940s.
In 1948, Capp reached a creative peak with the introduction of the Shmoos, lovable and innocent fantasy creatures who reproduced at amazing speed and brought so many benefits that, ironically, the world economy was endangered.
( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.
According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.
" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.
Capp was able to refute the accusation by simply showing the original artwork.
In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.
Allen Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist, ( Capp was a teetotaler ).
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.

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Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.
On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.
Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " very possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.
Li ' l Abner lasted until November 13, 1977, when Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to advancing illness.
" Capp is at his allegorical best in the epics of the Shmoos, and later, the Kigmies ," wrote comic strip historian Jerry Robinson ( in The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art, 1974 ).

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) Leaving Joe Palooka, Capp sold Li ' l Abner to United Feature Syndicate ( now known as United Media ).
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.
Some legendary session musicians The Castells worked with later became known collectively as " The Wrecking Crew ". They included Billy Strange ( guitar ), Barney Kessel ( guitar ), Ray Pohlman ( bass & arranger of one of the group's sessions ), Frankie Capp ( any percussion device known to humanity ), Plas Johnson ( saxophone ), Glen Campbell ( guitar ), and Hal Blaine ( drums ).

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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.
In " In the Garden ", Fiona Capp revealed the story of the 25-year secret love affair between two of Australia's most well-known and well-loved public figures, " the famous poet-come-activist " Judith Wright and " the distinguished yet down-to-earth statesman " H. C. " Nugget " Coombs.
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 !!
In “ In the Garden ”, Fiona Capp revealed the captivating story of the 25-year secret love affair between two of Australia ’ s most well-known and well-loved public figures,the famous poet-cum-activist ” Judith Wright andthe distinguished yet down-to-earth statesman ” ‘ Nugget ’ Coombs.

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Capp had already decided to become a cartoonist.
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.
( 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.
" 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 ).
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Shortly after the war, Rockwell was contacted by writer Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp, with the suggestion that the three of them should make a daily comic strip together, with Caplin and his brother writing and Rockwell drawing.
Andy Capp is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe ( 1917 – 1998 ), seen in The Daily Mirror and The Sunday Mirror newspapers since 5 August 1957.
" 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.
Drawn by cartoonist Steve Stiles, the new Abner was approved by Capp's widow and brother, Elliott Caplin, but Al Capp's daughter, Julie Capp, objected at the last minute and permission was withdrawn.
* The 1989 film I Want to Go Home ( Je Veux Rentrer a la Maison, screenplay by Jules Feiffer ) has a scene where the main character, a retired cartoonist played by Adolph Green, makes an unexpectedly emotional appeal for Al Capp and his legacy.
Joe Btfsplk was a character in the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner by cartoonist Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ).
Saunders returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist ( Capp was a teetotaler ).
In 1950, writer Elliot Caplin ( brother of cartoonist Al Capp ) suggested that Murphy illustrate a boxing comic strip he had in mind, Big Ben Bolt, and he agreed.
The idea for Broom-Hilda originally came from writer Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp, who described the character to Myers.
It was opened in 1968, and was based on the comic strip Li ' l Abner, created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional village called Dogpatch.
" All kinds of people came to pay their respects, from comedian-singer Tommy Smothers to Li ' l Abner cartoonist Al Capp, who kind of betrayed the price of entry by getting into a shouting match with the Peaceful Pair.
The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li ' l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp.
The American cartoonist Al Capp frequently combined eye dialect with pronunciation spelling in his strip " Li ' l Abner ".
Salomey was the Yokums ' beloved pet pig in the classic comic strip Li ' l Abner, by cartoonist Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ).

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