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Except for Chic Young's Blondie and Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, no U.S. comic strip has ever scored a solid hit in Britain. But when the lid was taken off newsprint last winter, the London Sunday Pictorial jumped to sign up Al Capp's Li'l Abner. Editor Harry Guy Bartholomew, whose knowing tabloid touch had built the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,400,000) into the world's biggest daily, thought that his even bigger weekend Pictorial audience (4,800,000) would eat up Capp's super-edible Shmoos as hungrily...
...Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called the Shmoos 'the greatest satire since Swift's Gulliver's Travels . . .' It's odd that, though [the U.S. and Britain] share the same language, we don't share each other...
...annual dinner of the National Cartoonists' Society last week, everybody recognized President Milt (Steve Canyon) Caniff and Chief Speaker Al (Li'l Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
...officers are planning an outing of just the type that causes Al Capp to be violently, publicly, and (it is believed) figuratively sick to his stomach...
McDonald, a full time and more content newscaster, is expected to defend radio sponsors from Capp's anticipated verbal onslaught...