Word: abner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping...
Reader Terrence O'Toole of Moorhead, Minn, was troubled. Why had Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, been missing from the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune for four weeks in a row? Wrote Reader O'Toole: "Censorship? Slow mail service? Forget to pay the syndicate...
...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
Among Li'l Abner fans, it is common knowledge that Capp and Cartoonist Ham Fisher, who draws Joe Palooka, have long feuded. One of the big Capp-Fisher arguments concerns the birth of Li'l Abner: Fisher charges that Capp stole the idea from a Palooka sequence involving a hillbilly named Li'l David; Capp says he invented the hillbillies while working as Fisher's assistant on the Palooka strip...
Martha's Vineyard: Abner L. Braley '11; P.O. Box 187, Edgartown, Mass...