Word: abner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonsense, retorted Al (Li'l Abner) Capp. "Comic strippers are storytellers. . . . Dickens might have written in comic books if he could have gotten a contract...
...young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...
First of the acts for the Freshman Smoker was lined up last night when the eight-man committee in charge of the affair announced that "Li'I Abner" creator Al Capp would appear at the event, Monday, March 22, with a demonstration of his cartooning talents...
...Capp filled his Li'l Abner space with season's greetings to his pals, but Washington Publisher "Cissie" Patterson, who is mad at Walter Winchell and her ex-son-in-law, Drew Pearson, had their names routed out. Times-Herald readers who phoned in about the empty spaces were blandly told: typographical error...
...poet began his talk by discussing the here concept in many of its different forms. "Quixote," he concluded, "lives in his own right beyond the words of Cervantes, continuing to classic new stories within the imagination of the reader. Like Little Abner, he outlives the imagination of his creation. He makes the Christian tradition immortal in himself as no strictly moral fictional character could...