Li’l Abner versus Li’l Folks
- By : Nat
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This invterview about a just-released biography of Li’l Abner creator Al Capp (and when one says a “warts and all” biography of Capp, believe me that “warts” is putting it nicely) includes as illustration three Abner Sunday strips from 1968 which I’d not seen before, in which Capp attempts to put his satirical screws to Schulz and the success of Peanuts. They aren’t actually funny, and some of the specific criticisms seem more than a mite odd coming from Capp as the interview notes (unrealistic dialog and commercially exploited both figure heavily into Capp’s own work, as the interview suggests), but I’d not seen them before and they are of at least curiosity value. (Abner was a very funny strip in its key period, but that had passed well before 1968.)
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