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Dogpatch, the hill-bound heartland of Capp's mad empire, is a bewilderingly portable affair. Capp continually changes it to suit either his current story line or his own fancy, and it has been variously situated in a deep valley, on a desert beside a high mountain ("Onnecessary Mountain"), and on top of the same peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Dogpatch institution, the Skonk Works, is almost as lethal-scores have been done in by the fumes of the concentrated skonk oil which is brewed and barreled by its proprietor, Big Barnsmell, and his "outside man," Barney Barnsmell. Of the devices which are employed to make life horrible for Capp's characters, these are simply the more rudimentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...dismal, Arctic citizens of Lower Slobbovia are forever doomed to stand buried to their chins in snow, bitten from behind by sempiternally voracious bears and wolves. The luckless victims of Fearless Fosdick, the fiendish detective (Capp's caricature of Dick Tracy), who is a dead shot and trigger-itchy, always end up perforated as neatly as so many slices of Swiss cheese. No true Abner fan (classified by Capp as a "slobbering" fan) can forget the magnificent moment when J. Roaringham Fatback, the hog tycoon, ordered Onnecessary Mountain tilted sideways with enormous jacks to keep its shadow from falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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