Word: cartoonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missing Capp sequence concerned one Happy Vermin, the self-described "world's smartest cartoonist," who had hired Li'l Abner to draw Vermin's comic strip in a dimly lighted closet. Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
Among Li'l Abner fans, it is common knowledge that Capp and Cartoonist Ham Fisher, who draws Joe Palooka, have long feuded. One of the big Capp-Fisher arguments concerns the birth of Li'l Abner: Fisher charges that Capp stole the idea from a Palooka sequence involving a hillbilly named Li'l David; Capp says he invented the hillbillies while working as Fisher's assistant on the Palooka strip...
Explained the Tribune's editors to Reader O'Toole and other disappointed Capp fans: the omitted strips "constituted a personal attack upon another prominent cartoonist. The Tribune does not allow its reporters, editors or columnists to vent personal malice . . . and it believes the same rule ought to apply to comic-strip artists...
...While Cartoonist Milton Caniff looked proudly on and P-51 Mustangs circled overhead, Colorado's Governor Walter Johnson unveiled a ten-foot, 7½-ton limestone statue of comic-strip Aviator Steve Canyon at the junction of U.S. highways...
...Gumps were conceived, named (after a favorite family expression, "Don't be a gump") and lovingly nursed by the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and president of the Tribune-News syndicate. For turning out the immensely popular strip, the syndicate paid Cartoonist Sidney Smith a record $150,000 a year. The Gumps survived Smith's death in 1935 (Cartoonist Gus Edson has drawn it ever since) and Patterson's in 1946, but their following slipped and a number of newspapers dropped the strip...