Al Capp (September 28, 1909 - November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, "Li'l Abner". He also wrote the comic strips "Abbie and Slats" and "Long Sam". He won the 1947 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for the comic strip "Li'l Abner", and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award posthumously. Wikipedia
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In 1934 Capp struck out on his own. He took a new hillbilly idea to United Features Syndicate (creating a lifelong public feud with Fisher) and "Li'l Abner was born. Abner was initially syndicated to a mere eight newspapers, but his hapless Dogpatchers deniskitchen.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Categ...
Al Capp was a celebrity-cartoonist and creator of "Lil Abner." The strip began in 1934, and the sardonic, pugnacious Capp masterminded it until its end in 1977. During the long life span of the satirical hillbilly saga, he swung from liberal to conserva www.askart.com/askart/c/al_alfred_gerald_caplin_capp/al_a...
