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...Apparently the political insinuation that Mr. Capp has presented in Li'l Abner was missed by Mr. Killinger. . . . True, Lena the Hyena was undoubtedly created to rib Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould; ah, but Lower Slobbovia was also created, I am sure, to rib a certain country. What more appropriate place than in Foreign News could the item have been placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Cartoonist Al Capp, who invented Lena to rib fellow Cartoonist Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The (Sob!) Ugliest | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...bleak uplands of Al Capp's pan-Slobbic Utopia were tense with expectation last week. It was the day most eagerly awaited by Lower Slobbovians-G.O.S.* Day, when one lucky citizen is named to fill the U.S. immigration quota of one Slobbovian per hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOWER SLOBBOVIA: Escape from Utopia | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...force every candidate for public office to have his head examined. But after three weeks under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: In McRompers' Steps | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of War | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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