Al Capp didn't often play well with others, and his public career ended in disgrace. But many people owe the "Li'l Abner" cartoonist some thanks, starting with every high school boy asked to a Sadie ...

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You are about to enter Dogpatch, an average stone-age community, It nestles in a bleak valley, between two cheap and uninteresting hills . . . On this low prefatory note, Comic-Stripper Al Capp ...

Today marks the 100th birthday of one of the nation's most famous cartoonists, a man whose name was once widely recognized throughout the nation but unfortunately gets little recognition here on his ...

Despite their striking resemblance, Li’l Abner, the midcentury comic strip hero, was everything his creator Al Capp was not: an unlettered, unambitious, all-American hillbilly who was strapping ...

Like William Wordsworth and others before him, Al Capp began life as a crusading liberal and ended it growing more conservative with each passing breath. For four decades, Capp gave the world Lil' ...

Sadie Hawkins Day originated from Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, which ran from 1934 to 1977. In the comic strip, Sadie Hawkins was the homely looking daughter of Hekzebiah Hawkins, and at the age ...