Descent into Dogpatch: On Al Capp and "Li'l Abner"
As a New Englander who loves Jewish comics, satire and good girl art, and whose father was both a conservative hillbilly and a closet cartoonist, there is precisely EVERYTHING to fascinate me about Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin, 1909-1979). Capp was the creator of the cultural phenomenon known as Li'l Abner, which was a huge […]