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Li'l Abner Dailies #2
Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 2: 1936
The Yokums visit the big city! This second volume reprints the 1936 daily strips and includes a three-way introduction by Milton Caniff, Al Capp, and R.C. Harvey. Also included is an article that puts the strip into the historical context of 1936.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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Al Capp
142 books7 followersAlfred Gerald Caplin (1909-1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist. He is best known as the creator, writer and artist of the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner, which run for 43 years from 1934 to 1977.
Capp was born in 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, of a poor family of East European Jewish heritage. His childhood was scared by a serious accident: after being run over by a trolley car, nine years old Alfred had his left leg partially amputated. This early trauma possibly had an impact on Capp's cynical humour, as later represented in his strips. His father, Otto Philip Caplin, a failed businessman and an amateur cartoonist, is credited for introducing Al and his two brothers to making comics.
After some training in art schools in New England, in 1932 Al Capp moved to New York with the intent of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. The same year he married Catherine Wingate Cameron. In the first couple of years of his career Capp worked as an assistant/ghost artist on Ham Fischer's strip 'Joe Palooka', while preparing to pitch his own comic strips to the newspaper syndicate.
His strip Li'l Abner was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight American newspapers to immediate success. The comic started as an hillibilly slapstick, then shifted over the year in the direction of satire, black humor and social commentary. The strip run until 1977, written and mostly drawn by Capp.
A lifelong chain smoker, All Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.
Capp was born in 1909 in New Haven, Connecticut, of a poor family of East European Jewish heritage. His childhood was scared by a serious accident: after being run over by a trolley car, nine years old Alfred had his left leg partially amputated. This early trauma possibly had an impact on Capp's cynical humour, as later represented in his strips. His father, Otto Philip Caplin, a failed businessman and an amateur cartoonist, is credited for introducing Al and his two brothers to making comics.
After some training in art schools in New England, in 1932 Al Capp moved to New York with the intent of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. The same year he married Catherine Wingate Cameron. In the first couple of years of his career Capp worked as an assistant/ghost artist on Ham Fischer's strip 'Joe Palooka', while preparing to pitch his own comic strips to the newspaper syndicate.
His strip Li'l Abner was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934, in eight American newspapers to immediate success. The comic started as an hillibilly slapstick, then shifted over the year in the direction of satire, black humor and social commentary. The strip run until 1977, written and mostly drawn by Capp.
A lifelong chain smoker, All Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.
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October 24, 2017
Big fun, great beginning of this long-lived strip.
Recommended.
Recommended.
June 26, 2017
I'm willing to argue about this comic strip. It isn't that I am blind to its greatness, but that I do not believe it is great. This, like (the superior) Lum and Abner that came before it and The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres that came after, what I will call hillbilly humor is a poor excuse for humor. We are invited to laugh at people for being clueless and mentally feeble, usually. I do not find this amusing and I have a moral problem with people who do. Besides, Capp is an overrated artist with terrible anatomy problems and a tendency to repeat himself. Feh.
January 20, 2014
Capp started to show what Abner would become in this volume. The artwork is still a little primitive compared to later years, but the plotting and characters are starting to really show the Capp touch. Looking forward to the rest of them.
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