Word: abner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Nov. 6 cover story on the disgusting L'l Abner is certainly a record new low of some sort...
...Capp is certainly a genius. Li'l Abner is a satire comparable to Gulliver's Travels...
Capp sniped at Fisher through Li'l Abner. When Fisher had his nose remodeled, Capp gleefully insinuated a horse named "Ham's Nose-bob" into the strip. Last April he wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about a cartoonist who had once employed him. He named no names, simply titled his piece, "I Remember Monster." The sound of battle finally became too loud, and the respective syndicates called for a peace treaty-which was gravely consummated last August by proxies for each side...
Capp Enterprises not only licenses the manufacture of such direct offshoots of the strip as Shmoos and Kigmies, but more than a hundred other products, including Li'l Abner orangeade, Daisy Mae blouses, Li'l Abner corncob pipes and Li'l Abner skonk hats. A good guess at the gross profit...
...Capp's journeys to New York are basically vacation trips. When it is time to begin producing fresh chapters in the lives of Li'l Abner and his colleagues, he retires to a big, handsomely furnished apartment on Boston's Beacon Street. One of its back rooms-a bare-walled hideaway fitted up with three drawing boards-is the workroom in which Capp and two longtime assistants, Andy Amato and Walter Johnston, grind out the installments of their never-ending serial...