Word: capps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passions of Slobberlips McJab. Capp also sees to it that his readers are fed liberal quantities of sex, Dogpatch style-a style which incorporates the absurder aspects of mayhem and dementia. On occasion the woomanship of Appassionata Van Climax, the Wolf Gal, Adam Lazonga and Slobberlips McJab has resembled the more vehement techniques of Lizzie Borden and Strangler Lewis...
...Capp's characters speak in odd dialects. Dogpatch folks do not talk like real hillbillies but as Capp feels a hillbilly would probably talk if he lived near the Skonk Works all his life; his Lower Slobbovians speak a language flavored with Bronxian gutturals...
Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
...Pappy? Unlike most comic artists, Capp seems to attract readers in well-defined layers, each stratum as distinct as the segments of a pousse-café. Not all of them love him-some of the most virulent prose of the last decade has come from outraged Abner readers who have written to complain that he is undermining 1) the U.S. mind, 2) the nation's morals or 3) the Constitution itself...
...occasion, the editors and publishers who buy his strip also become bitterly critical. A few, like the editor of the Seattle Times, who kept Abner out of the paper because he seemed to be eating Pappy (in reality he was eating chicken), object to Capp's taste. But more of them criticize his political opinions, observable or suspected, as being out of place in a comic strip. Capp's reaction to such censors is violent. He is apt to cry that neither Mark Twain nor Will Rogers would be allowed to say a word today, and that...