Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Charles P. Summerall, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said last night that he "saw fit not to distribute" among members of the incoming freshman class a comic book urging enlistment in the R.O.T.C...
...firmly convinced that nothing makes a reader turn to a comic strip faster than the belief that one of its characters is about to be disemboweled, and the actors who tread his narrow stage are continually being starved, frozen, bilked, shot, or flattened out by the frequent upheavals of Capp's pulsating planet...
...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...
...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 any man who jokes about anything but his own idiosyncrasies risks being tarred, feathered, dissected by a bribed...
Manhattan is also the seat of Capp Enterprises, a firm devoted to the vastly remunerative business of commercializing the byproducts of Capp's comic strips. This odd institution's headquarters on East 45th Street (it also has a branch office in Montreal) is presided over by brother Jerry and has a desk for brother Elliot, who also runs a publishing firm and writes the action for Abbie & Slats, a strip which Capp originally founded...