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...wrote Cartoonist Al Capp a little thank-you note: "I, as a shmoo fan, was awfully delighted at seeing various activities of shmoo and its actual figure. The kigmy, I think, is too marvelous and the most useful creature in our human society . . . Long Live Li'l Abner...
...Capp, creater of L'il Abner, the Schmoo, the Kigmy, and other comic strip prodigies, may appear at the Freshman Smoker tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre...
...wasn't cheered up ... We knew that no girl would ever want him, and that emphasized the fact that some girl would or did want us . . ." Capp has improved on the old master: "I try to make a disappointed lover feel better by having Li'l Abner never know what to do about a succession of eager, luscious girls who throw their juicy selves at him ... Compared with Li'l Abner [the disappointed lover is] Don Juan. It makes him feel fine to be Don Juan. So he feels fine about Li'l Abner...
Browsing around the Square, with an eye out for anything interesting, may be an easier way out. The Krockodiloes album, a book of Abner Dean or Charles Adams cartoons are pretty good possibilities...
...satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...