If you were to mention the name “Al Capp” to a modern comics reader, there is a good chance it would mean nothing to them at all, or maybe they would think he was the British guy with the checkered ...
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Al Capp's Dogpatch USA opened in Arkansas in 1968 for $1.33 million; in 2020, it sold for $1.12 million
Al Capp's Li'l Abner theme park drew about 300,000 visitors in 1968, then went through bankruptcy, owners, and decay before Bass Pro's Johnny Morris bought it.
The Li'l Abner cartoonist's public image was tarnished by scandal, and a new book about him reminds readers why the talented Capp had so much to lose in the first place. The story of Li'l Abner ...
In the 1960s, two of the greatest American comic strips lost their way. Chester Gould’s “Dick Tracy” bogged down in, of all places, the moon, which supported a race of pale humanoids with little ...
Before there was Pop Art there was popular art, and the most popular art was the comic strip, and the most popular of the comic-strip artists was Al Capp. Last year marked his centenary, a time when ...
As a teenager, Ron Gagnon ran with a crowd that included the children of the cartoonist Al Capp. Sometimes when he’d visit the family’s ...
“Start the day right—kick a Kigmy and avoid a fight!” Introducing the hilarious Kigmy, the critter that loves to be kicked in order to relieve the world’s frustrations! Plus, Abner takes on Evil-Eye ...
Goldie Hawn has detailed her "casting couch" moment with famed cartoonist Al Capp, in which he allegedly came into the room "disrobed" and asked for a kiss. "I was 19. I went up for the 'meet,' and I ...
Al Capp, creater of L'il Abner, the Schmoo, the Kigmy, and other comic strip prodigies, may appear at the Freshman Smoker tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre. The humorist, who had been out of town ...
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