Word: capps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever limb they lost, U.S. war casualties kept their funnybones. Cartoon ist Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner Yokum, discovered this when he toured Army hospitals, found that amputees scorned dust-dry rehabilitation tomes, laughed their postwar worries away with comic books. Capp, who lost a leg as a young man, was sure that legless G.I.s could learn and laugh at the same time...
Last week the Red Cross distributed 50,000 copies of a 36-page comic-book biography of Capp, written and illustrated by himself...
Concluded Capp: "I learned that there isn't a helluva lot anyone else can do that you and I can't do, and there isn't anything in life anyone else can have, we can't have. Wait...
...Gray's Little Orphan Annie, never any too real or too funny, has sunk so deep into moldy homiletics that it is now trying to make Tory a nice word by proving that only rabble revolted in 1776. Fantasy, outside of Crockett Johnson's Barnaby and Al Capp's Li'l Abner, is so fouled up in gamma rays, cloaks of invisibility, space ships, and brutal omnipotence, that it has little time for fantasy's ancient, essential job of fusing the creatures of earth and heaven. The best of the rest, like Chester Gould...
...After Li'l Abner's buxom, bucolic sweetheart in Al Capp's comic strip...