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Amen, Cartoonist Al (Li'I Abner) Capp. May your tribe increase...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Wonderful World of Comics," discussed by Al (Li'l Abner) Capp, Walt (Pogo) Kelly, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff...
...carried his political opinions over into his own comic strip field. Capp flatly declared that "Orphan Annie is not a Communist," but was not so favorable to other strips. He revealed that eight weeks from now Daisy Mae's favorite comic strip will appear in "Li'l Abner" entitled "Mary Horm, America's Favorite Busybody." He described "Rex Morgan, M.D." as the comic strip that tells you how to enjoy leprosy, rather than how to cure...
This approach, combining as it does generalization and detail, broadens the book's appeal, and its value, too. The chapter on the conviction of Abner Kneeland for blasphemy (one of Shaw's worst decisions), for example, will attract anyone interested in the history of civil liberties; and even the more technical opinions in the various railroad cases can be appreciated as evidence of the way in which strong judges fostered industrial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century...
Though the Kids, who appear only in Sunday comic pages, have fallen behind such seven-days-a-week upstarts as Li'l Abner (820 daily and Sunday newspapers) and Blondie (1,200), their anarchistic appeal is still powerful enough to support their antics in two rival strips: The Katzenjammer Kids, which was Cartoonist Dirks's original strip, and The Captain and the Kids, the strip he began after losing The Kids in 1913. Combined, they appear in 400 U.S. newspapers with a total circulation of some 60 million, and translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages (with...