Word: capps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capp is certainly a genius. Li'l Abner is a satire comparable to Gulliver's Travels...
Place of honor to Al Capp might have been justified as a depressing example of what our moronic majority feeds on and demands. Instead you appear to deem the pictures artistic, the tortured slapdash stories breathtaking, the primitive jargon and stupid misspellings sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...
...Roosevelt's own inexhaustible fund of chatty conversation and the glamour of her guests (some of the recent ones: Boxer Ezzard Charles, Cartoonist Al Capp, Minister Perle Mesta, Actress Tallulah Bankhead) have given the program a 2.7 Pulse rating against the 2.3 of her veteran rival Mary Margaret McBride. But what disconcerts many listeners is the drumfire of basic-English commercials, fead in pear-shaped Grotonese, with which the show is slittered. Mrs. Roosevelt may murmur to a distinguished guest: "And now I think Elliott would like to say something...
...Music Was Simply Grand. Capp writes the story the strips tell, and the dialogue in which it is told, and draws the faces of the characters. Amato and Johnston-who each get 10% of Capp's profits, or about $30,000 a year-produce figures and backgrounds and finish the laborious chore of inking in the finished product. Capp does his work in long, furious bursts. He usually turns out a month's strips in two weeks...
...glee over his wealth and fame, these long, exhausting bouts of creation seem to be Al Capp's greatest reward. "No matter what else happens to me," he says, "I'm God himself when I sit down at this drawing board...